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Desperately needed/required.

Posted by mouse@xxxx.xxx on 2000-08-29

There was two emulators that I had downloaded a very long
time ago that would emulate a UNIX like system under the
Microsoft Windows envirorment without rebooting the PC.

I'm almost possitive that I downloaded the one that was
or actually, used to be available on www.cygwin.com. Now
it is no longer available, so it seems it's not. There
is a compiler available, but that is not what I need.

I already have probably more compilers than a standard
programmer, developer and possibly even a company. (G)
I do however need to aquire the emulators or whatever
they were, or were called. I am almost possitive that
one was called CygWin (although, like I said it was a
very long time ago, and that appears to be a compiler.)

I have BeOS (In my opinion, not all that good.) that is
a example of what I do not want. This runs LIVE with a
copy of Windows 9X/NT/00 installed and loaded. BeOS in
every case, requires you to shutdown to load in to it.
Of course, you can also use a FD to boot from directly
to BeOS but that still is not what I need.

Also note the following:
 - A name may refersh my memory of the emulators or the
   programs which run side-by-side with Windows.
 - MUST be able to work inside Windows only, without a
   need to reboot the machine for any reason.
 - Must be stable and reliable. Although an exception
   may be made for beta/alpha or experimental software.

 * Optional: Include TCP/IP networking availability that
   uses and, or can use Windows TCP/IP protocols.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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