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From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
To: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 16:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009BE319.3FA64320.29436@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> (raw)

Hi Fergus, you wrote:

: I don't see any good reason to hard-code the `32'.
: 
: Using `CYGWIN32' won't look very good on say the 64-bit NT Alpha port.

MS should have made the jump to >32bit at NT4, at a time several other
unices already were 64bit, and provide a real useful POSIX before forcing
all of us to NT, saving all this hassle!


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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             reply	other threads:[~1997-12-02 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-12-02 16:54 dahms [this message]
1997-12-03  7:38 ` Theodore Jump
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-12-04 17:09 Chris Faylor
1997-12-04 17:07 Michael Anthon
1997-12-05  8:07 ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-02 20:23 Earnie Boyd
1997-12-02  9:41 marcus
1997-12-03  6:00 ` Tomas Fasth
1997-12-03 18:36   ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-04 13:02     ` Tomas Fasth
1997-12-05  8:07       ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-03  7:38 ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-02  7:22 Chris Faylor
1997-12-02  6:11 Chris Faylor
1997-12-01 22:51 Chris Faylor
1997-12-01 22:51 ` Jason Zions
1997-12-01 22:51 Chris Faylor
1997-12-01 11:43 JONCKHEERE
1997-12-02  7:23 ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-01  5:09 Earnie Boyd
1997-12-01  2:03 Chris Faylor
1997-12-01  9:09 ` Norm Peterson
1997-12-01 11:47 ` Jason Zions
1997-12-01 22:10 ` Justin Smith
1997-12-01 22:51 ` Theodore Jump
1997-12-01 22:51 ` Michael Hirmke
1997-12-02  7:16   ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-02  9:41     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-12-03  7:38       ` Chris Faylor
1997-12-02  5:17 ` Kimon Kontovasilis

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