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

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
" 
" 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.  ~6 years ago, $work-3 was planning to move a major medical
product line from unix to interix because the customer base wanted
commodity hardware and a 'standard' os.  i was told it was a
straightfwd porting job.

" > and it can be run in place of win32 - at least, pre-ms interix gave
" > you the option.
" 
" 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...
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