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On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:42:54AM -0700, Stepp, Charles wrote:
>Why would you bother with the Windoze machine if you have OS X/FreeBSD
>available?
>
>Cygwin provides my X, Expect, bash, etc. on my corporate mandated
>Windoze laptop. Otherwise...

Yes, that's the $65536 question.  If you can use a real UNIX why would you
try an emulation running on top of Windows?  And, then complain about the
emulation when it doesn't run as fast as the real thing?

cgf

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