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Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM
>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>I don't much like it, but that's reality.  (...why did Cygnus fund the
>>early development, in the first place?  To have a windows-hosted build
>>environment for xxx-target compilers: in this case, xxx =3D native-win32)
>
>Cygnus funded the work to provide windows *hosted* cross compilers for
>other architectures. Targetting *native* targeted win32 did not come
>until a couple into the life of the project.

references:
  <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/brief-history.html>
  See '4. "Harnessing the Power of the Internet"' on
<http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/full_pa=
pers/noer/noer_html/noer.html>

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