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Re: A bit of history


On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:59:30PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen
>
>> FWIW, related to history:
>> 
>> There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for 
>> quite some
>> time)
>>  a sister project to cygwin here:
>> 
>> 	http://www.geekgadgets.org
>
>
>  That was the project to port the gnu environment to the old Amiga series
>of computers.  The site seems to be down right now but there's still plenty
>of it in google's cache.

I hate to be mean here but this project pretty obviously has nothing to
do with cygwin.  Fred Fish is a great programmer and a great guy but
this is not a "sister project".  It's just another project out there
which tried to accomplish similar goals.

Let's not start a discussion of other projects throughout the world
which tried the obvious plan of porting GNU tools to a non-UNIX
platform.  There were enough GNU programmers employed by Cygnus that the
chances are good that one would be involved and you could always infer a
nebulous connection to Cygwin where none actually exists.

cgf

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