Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Robert Praetorius" Organization: Ministry of Hobo Regalia, Gauntlet Division To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:46:44 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: OT: the real goal (was Re: If it is true, Please Help me.) Reply-to: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com Message-ID: <3AD26604.6475.435DFA30@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010407134013.K14994@redhat.com> References: <00e101c0bfc3$6bbdc260$6857a9cb@S7676530>; from eventualdeath@yahoo.com on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:43:02PM -0700 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) > Cygwin was a proof of concept. Now that we have the technology, we > will be able to move forward with the VMS on Windows project. Of > course, that is just a stepping stone towards the eventual goal of > TOPS-10 on Windows. But you must crawl before you can fly. Why not Twenex first? Then we can run (most of) our -10 .EXEs under PA1050 (a worthy predecessor to Cygwin). And NT does have copy- on-write (presumably because someone finally convinced Cutler that it was Cutler's idea in the 1st place). . . And who knows what next? Perhaps Multics and ITS? ----g-i-v-e---m-e---a-r-b-e-r-r-y---o-r---g-i-v-e---m-e---b-a-r-k-s----- "oncology recapitulates philately" --Mark Maxson Robert M. Praetorius "balance, not symmetry" --Mark Stanley home: rmp@MA.UltraNet.Com (attribution by Stigler) work: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple