Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Ted Brown
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 03:42

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In article <kevinbDDr3My.H5D@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> It's pretty unlikely that Word and Excel will ever be ported to Linux.
> Why would MS support a platform that is "competing" against their
> beloved Windows 95?  But it's much more possible that the other
> programs you mentioned will be ported (there's even a version of
> Photoshop for the SGI.  How hard can it be to port that to Linux when
> it's already an X app?).

MS Word and Excel run on SGI's the same way that Photoshop does.  The Mac
binary is run through
a translator, which allows it to run on the SGI.  If you look at the
dialog boxes, they look suspiciously like the
Mac ones.

I've seen a flyer for the company that makes the translator (they
advertise "endorsed by Microsoft" copies of Excel and Word), I'm sorry to
say that I don't remember the name of the company.

To do the same for Linux would involve porting the translator and the
library that mimics Mac functions on X.

-- 
Ted Brown brown.251@osu.edu

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From: brown.251@osu.edu (Ted Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:42:23 -0400
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