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Subject: Re: co-linux
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:25:49 +0200
In-Reply-To: <NUTMEGc67dhtYKNWs5Q0000045f@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (Dave Korn's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:55:10 +0100")
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Dave Korn writes:

>> What will be the benefits of using cygwin in that case.
>
>   Having a Unix-alike, rather than a Linux-alike, for one.

Yah, Unix was so much cooler than Linux.  Don't we all pine for those
times, where we would make all kinds of interesting workarounds for
non-POSIX compliant /bin/sh's that came without that silly stuff
called source code.

Jan.
/still failing to see why Cygwin has that same coolness factor

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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