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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 06:59:39 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Is cygwin Linux.
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Nicholas,

The Macintosh (PowerPC, big-endian) supports a very good and 
high-performance emulator for i386 (little-endian) to which Windows has 
been ported. It's called VirtualPC and supports Windows versions from 95 to XP.

Until the end of last year, the same company produced a Mac-hosted emulator 
for the Sony PlayStation.

Regarding the Mikael's question, the only real issue about something 
familiar to a Cygwin user on SunOS is whether the GNU tools are readily 
available (I assume they are, or at least could be compiled there, probably 
out-of-the-box). Many GNU tools have more options than do their 
counterparts on other Unix systems.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA



At 06:01 2002-05-27, you wrote:

>--- "Johansson Mikael (mj)" <mikael DOT mj DOT johansson AT volvo DOT com> wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I have two questions.
> >
> > 1. Is cygwin compatible for Sun OS, Solaris.
>The others have answered this...
>
> > 2. What is the relation between Linux and Cygwin.
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I wonder if a program placed on a
> > computer with Sun OS can execute in cygwin.
>
>
>If you are referring to running a Sparc binary on the IA32 platform, the 
>answer is it will probably never happen.  One of the biggest differences 
>is that Sparc binaries are bigendian while IA32 are little endian in 
>ordering.  This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to create a 
>software emulator.  The best bet is to see if you can't recompile the 
>program, taking into account the architecture differences.  If it is a 
>closed-source program, see if there are any opensource alternatives and 
>then try compiling those.  If all else fails, reinvent the wheel;).
>
>
> > Thanks beforehand
> >
> > Mikael.
>
>Cheers,
>Nicholas


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