From: waterlan <waterlan@xs4all.nl>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] dosbox 0.74-2
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa2851e3f965744a19c34929676b75e5@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C26740.7000802@cygwin.com>
Yaakov Selkowitz schreef op 2016-02-16 01:03:
> 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.
I agree with you, but I can't see the advantage for DosBOX. I would also
not run Wine or VirtualBox under Cygwin. It only adds slowness.
Thanks for porting anyway. It demonstrates how mature Cygwin is.
best regards,
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Erwin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 7:57 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
2016-02-16 7:57 ` waterlan [this message]
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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