On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:54:51PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: andystewart> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ WINE is worth looking into as well. WINE Is Not an Emulator, but a reimplementation of the Win32 ABI. http://www.winehq.org/

From: "Steve Freitag" <stevef@ma.ultranet.com>

Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also want to check out Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/

"Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows."

Well that's in quotes, so it's just a character string, but lest somebody mistake it for an assertion... Cygwin was developed by Cygnus Support, a company that was founded (at least in part) by John Gilmore of EFF fame. It predates RedHat by about five years. The made money selling support services for GNU software (hence the name cyGNUs). In addition to Cygwin, they did some work on gcc, and hosted the guile project for a while (Guile is GNU Scheme). They were bought by RedHat shortly after the RedHat IPO had them rolling in cash. I don't mean to get too pedantic, but next someone will be telling me that Microsoft developed DOS, and I'll have to really rant. Typing http://www.cygnus.com/ just takes you to RedHat, but http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/cygnus_1999/redhat-cygnus111599.html gives RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SUNNYVALE, CA---November 15, 1999---Red Hat®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the market leader in open source solutions, and privately-held Cygnus Solutions, today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement, whereby Red Hat will acquire Cygnus in a transaction valued at $674 million based on Red Hat's Friday, November 12 closing price. About Cygnus Solutions ----- ------ --------- Cygnus Solutions, a leader in open source software and an innovating force in Internet software infrastructure, offers software development platforms based on an open source model. Cygnus development tools cover more than 125 host-target combinations for embedded microprocessors and are supported by one of the most experienced teams of engineers delivering custom-engineering services and developer support to top companies worldwide. Founded in 1989, Cygnus pioneered the commercialization of open source software. About Red Hat, Inc. ----- --- --- --- Founded in 1994, Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT) is the market leader in open source operating system (OS) software, services and information.

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:37:09AM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:51AM -0500, Keith Wright wrote: kwright> It predates RedHat by about five years.

There is no such company as RedHat. It is Red Hat, Inc., or just Red Hat.

Does WLUG have a pedant klaxon? We need something with a rotating light, and a strobe, that goes "Wooooo, woooo! Pedant alert!" I mean we could only use it at meetings, but I could imagine it on the mailing list, or maybe someone could make a little java applet, or something. -Chuck

From: Keith Wright

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Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also want to check out Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/

"Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows."

Well that's in quotes, so it's just a character string, but lest somebody mistake it for an assertion...

[ rant/history lesson deleted for those with slow modems :-) ] For the curious, the quotes were indicating a direct quote from (the top of) http://www.cygwin.com Perhaps not the best choice of wording... considering all the individuals (besides Red Hat/Cygnus) who have helped make cygwin possible. For even earlier history of GNU software on DOS check here: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/eli-m17n99.html