From: corey@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney) Subject: Re: "Killer app" Date: 31 May 1993 17:37:58 CST
jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
>In article <1th751INNise@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> dthumim@athena.mit.edu
(Dani
>el 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
>
>
This is already being discussed in the dos mailing list. If you want to find
out where people are on it & what being planned that'd be the place to look.
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Corey Sweeney
corey@amiganet.chi.il.us
I do not own a amiga!