From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] dosbox 0.74-2
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C26740.7000802@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea13ddc3b75eb9016e943d18de98daf3@xs4all.nl>
On 2016-02-15 17:46, waterlan wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz schreef op 2016-02-15 21:12:
>> On 2016-02-15 13:41, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>>> Why would anyone run DosBOX under Cygwin???
>>
>> 64-bit Windows versions do not have any compatibility layer for DOS
>> programs.
>
> I run DosBOX-win32 directly on 64 bit Windows. No need for a Cygwin
> POSIX layer here.
You could say the same of many packages. If you want to run MinGW or
MSYS, go right ahead. If you want to use Cygwin as an environment in
and of its own, then the more packages therein the better.
--
Yaakov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-15 17:18 Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-02-15 19:41 ` Erwin Waterlander
2016-02-15 20:12 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-02-15 23:46 ` waterlan
2016-02-16 0:03 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2016-02-16 7:57 ` waterlan
2016-02-16 8:17 ` Csaba Raduly
2016-02-16 17:50 ` Andrey Repin
2016-02-16 19:36 ` waterlan
2016-02-16 21:28 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2016-02-16 22:20 ` Andrey Repin
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