Definitely UNIX interop, at least at the tooling level: > MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applicat

Definitely UNIX interop, at least at the tooling level: > MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present. [0]: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS