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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:27:43 -0500
To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dimi AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu>,
        "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladivan AT pacbell DOT net>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Wine on Cygwin
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At 11:01 PM 11/30/2000, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
>
> > Why would one want to run Wine on Cygwin which is itself running on what
> > Wine is trying to emulate?
>
>For many reasons:
>   -- ease of development
>   -- get more developers (some have only Windows at work)
>   -- test Cygwin to its limits
>   -- ditto for Wine
>   -- it has a large neat factor :)
>
>--
>Dimi.



Seems to me that getting user-mode Linux 
(http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net) running on Cygwin would be another
option that may fulfill many of the same goals without the confusing 
side-effects!;-)  Just a thought and one that can be easily ignored.;-)




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