From: jazz AT opennt DOT com (Jason Zions)
Subject: RE: shells under mingw [Re: Cygwin32 Newbie (NBY)]
9 Feb 1998 21:59:21 -0800
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To: "'Mumit Khan'" <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> Being kind nor smart is going to make bash run under mingw32 w/out a
> severe rewrite and/or dumbing down. The only reasonable way to do it 
> is to provide a POSIX emulation layer on top Win32 API. But wait!
> That's what cygwin32 (and OpenNT and UWIN and ...) does.
> 
OpenNT is not an emulation layer on top of Win32; it provides a
protected mode NT subsystem that runs as a peer to Win32 and which
provides full POSIX semantics. For more explanation and propaganda, see
http://www.opennt.com.

Jason Zions, Softway Systems
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