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"Name a product that succeeds by running UNIX as an application." Hmhm, Xen? I think I'd name quite a few.

• rincewind 17y ago
  Cygwin, Interix (a.k.a. SFU) on Windows NT
  • bad_user 17y ago
    Would you trust your application to run in production on a Cygwin machine?
    • ilyak 17y ago
      Why not? Thousands of applications run on Cygwin just fine. There's no reason to mistrust Cygwin more than you mistrust, say, MFC. However in most cases you can delpoy to a more optimal platform (actual UNIX).
    • rbanffy 17y ago
      I wouldn't trust my apps to run on a Windows machine, period. Running them under Cygwin, at least makes them easily portable to more refined environments.
• Confusion 17y ago
  That existed in 1992?
  • ilyak 17y ago
    I'm just showing that some points that were true in 1992 aren't now.
  • amalcon 17y ago
    VMWare did...