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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- To: cgf at redhat dot com, dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:43:19 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: alain at qnx dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com
<<Ditto Interix, IMO.
>>
I strongly disagree, Interix is entirely equivalent to Win32 from a logical
point of view, it is one of the alternative subsystems offered for use
with the NT kernel. When using NT, the operating system consists of
the kernel + a subsystem of your choice. Microsoft offers two possible
subsystems, Win32, and Interix. The combination of the NT kernel and
Interix provides a typical Unix like operating system. In no sense
is Interix a separate unit operating on top of Win32.
Part of the confusion here is that when people say NT, they usually
mean the combination of the NT kernel + the Win32 subsystem. If this
is your meaning when you use the term NT, then Interix is NOT a library
that runs under NT, it is an operating system in all the normal uses
of the term.