From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () Subject: Re: "Killer app" Date: 21 May 1993 12:25:18 GMT
In article <1th751INNise@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
>All this talk about developing a WYSIWYG-like WP, maybe with an
>interface to [La]TeX is nice, but it's not a "killer app" that will get
>DOS/windoze users to run linux. They like their Wordperfect or 123 for
>windoze or whatever they have. The "killer app" for linux would be
>something allowing users to run windoze apps... if people can run their
>favorite windoze apps directly under linux/X, then I think that linux
>will become much more attractive to many people. Then others will write
>self-help books about it and pretty X administration utils, etc. 8-)
>
>I saw this wonderful announcement here about how Sun users will be able
>to run MS-Windoze apps on their SPARCs and that the interface standard
>for windoze apps will be open. What does this mean for us?
>
I think this is an excellent idea!!! Could the current DOSEMU or XDOS
be used as a starting point ?
John
jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov