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Re: precompiled X11 libs


Joe Marzot wrote:
> 
> does this mean my X apps will now port and run on NT without a
> commercial X server? what's to stop the XFree 86 server from running
> under cygwin?

Among other things, the mechanisms that the video servers use to access
the hardware registers would have to be emulated or rewritten for
Windows.

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