RE: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-20 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Larry Hall wrote: Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are compared with NT and greater? No, not that has been reported to this list anyway. I wonder how close to an

RE: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owneratcygwindotcom On Behalf Of Brian Dessent ^^ Hmmm? Larry Hall wrote: Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are compared with NT and

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:23:47AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owneratcygwindotcom On Behalf Of Brian Dessent ^^ Hmmm? Larry Hall wrote: Has anybody actually

RE: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-20 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor I guess I'll keep making the observation that any poll would be worthless as long as people seem to be ignoring that fact and still coming up with alternate ways of polling. AFAIC the discussion has long since

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: The newly released Microsoft Services For Unix (SFU v3.5) includes a new highly tuned POSIX subsystem. MS says that UNIX apps using the POSIX subsystem are within 10% performance of Windows apps using the Win32 subsystem. The security

Re: Cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:37 PM 1/19/2004, Dax Kelson you wrote: The newly released Microsoft Services For Unix (SFU v3.5) includes a new highly tuned POSIX subsystem. MS says that UNIX apps using the POSIX subsystem are within 10% performance of Windows apps using the Win32 subsystem. The security models also work

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:12 PM 1/19/2004, Andrew DeFaria you wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: The newly released Microsoft Services For Unix (SFU v3.5) includes a new highly tuned POSIX subsystem. MS says that UNIX apps using the POSIX subsystem are

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Larry Hall wrote: Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are compared with NT and greater? No, not that has been reported to this list anyway. I wonder how close to an approximation of reality a simple poll/form on the cygwin.com front page would generate? Brian

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:41:13PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are compared with NT and greater? No, not that has been reported to this list anyway. I wonder how close to an approximation of reality a simple

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:12:25PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: There would certainly be a real detriment in the fact that cygwin would stop working for Windows 95/98/Me. If we could focus just on NT class systems, there is all sorts of improvements that we could make.

Re: cygwin without Win32

2004-01-19 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:36:42PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:12:25PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: There would certainly be a real detriment in the fact that cygwin would stop working for Windows 95/98/Me. If we could focus just on NT