tprinceusa wrote: > ... snip ... > > > I witnessed a Microsoft lecture today where the speaker said over > and over again that .NET is the answer to everything, including > all applications currently running on any OS, but they will NOT > support anything which supports posix, although there may be a new > Interix in the works. They invite anyone who is important enough > to sign up for 3 days or a week of help in Redmond to get their > applications changed to a version which will run only on .NET and > differentiate it from what could be done on linux [or cygwin?]. > To me, at least, this looked like confirmation that they disfavor > cygwin.
I have a book here about the organization and creation of NT, written in the NT3.1 days. The writer was female, and I forget her name (the book is not at hand). It specifically states that one of the design objectives was a complete Posix layer, on an equal basis with the W32 layer. At the time the system seemed to make a lot of sense to me, but it sounds as if they have dropped everything not intimately connected with oligarchy. -- Chuck F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> USE worldnet address! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
