[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Sandwich Maker wrote:

> " > if the posix subsystem layer [interix 2.2 iirc] is truly posix,
> " > shouldn't it have cli for everything?
> "
> " Except that it's really just a system of libraries--not anything that
> " interacts with the user.
>
> i understood it to be a complete posix env, incl x11, shells, utils,
> etc.

SFU and Interis are, yes.  But the NT "Posix layer" is just a runtime
environment.

> " Hmm.  Now that would be intriguing.  A #-prompt on Windows NT, with no
> " Win32 crap in the way.
>
> if you have nt floating around, sfu 3.5 is free for d/l...

Well, I have 2000 on a Wintendo box at home.  I could probably scrape up
parts to build a tiny NT system.

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