Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-IP: [12.254.208.112] X-Originating-Email: [mgainty@hotmail.com] From: "Martin" To: References: <20030404001614.GA21725@redhat.com> <20030404002003.GB21725@redhat.com> Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:03:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2003 01:03:53.0222 (UTC) FILETIME=[0F5D4260:01C2FA46] To backup Stephans statement it would be in Microsoft's interest to support 32/64 bit Cygwin. By supporting Cygwin Microsoft would increase and not decrease the installed base of Windows. Back to the fray- Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" To: Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: > >>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what > >>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I > >>do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with > >>backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing > >>apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps > >>are astounding. > > > >Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or > >earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0, > >and Windows XP. I think I can testify to that effort. > > ...and by stupid tricks, I mean stupid tricks used in cygwin, of course... > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/