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To: Eveline Bernard who wrote (8471)	1/7/2000 11:04:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	of 9798

Eveline, you are really paying attention. I use the word emulation in a loose way. I believe NCD and Graphon and VMware all have similar operation. A process runs on a msft os computer and allows for the feeding of mouse and keystrokes to an application and the graphic output is the program is fed to a network connection. On the client machine a application runs that takes and feeds the mouse and keyboard to the network and display the graphics returned from the msft application server. So the application is running/executing natively. What you see on the (linux/unix/msft)client looks just like the application would if running native on a msft system. In theory it sounds nice but in practice the piggy nature of msft apps and the fact that in my opinion no one really knows what the msft os actually do completely creates clunk times clank raised to some exponent much larger than 1. Now gettin any particular msft OS program to run this way with any stability is difficult. So if one creates ones own Linux distribution, one can integrate and test. But the handshaking is tight. So when one is done one's apps may run on other Linuxes. But there are also other layers that add to the complexity. There are different Xservers and there are different Window managers and there are differ modules for the different window managers and all can create small differences in how information is presented. This is why I am against what I loosely call the emulation of an interface. This is how I mean the corl apps that are not directly ported may only run well on corl Linux which will have a corl selected Xserver and Window manager (kde I think) Applix apps are directly ported to all OSes and do not operate through interface emulations or simulations. Software bugs occur at interfaces. Bugs increase quardradically as the number of interfaces increase. All windows api emulation interfaces are guesses as to how they work as there is no source available. hmmmm Am I confused yet? this article describes corl/graphon operation kinda. Corel Linux Will Run Windows Apps pcworld.com Tom Watson tosiwmee

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