cygwin isnt an emulator... its a port of the standard unix tools to windows... 
if you look at the shortcut to cygwin (after it is installed) it points to 
bash... 

On 17 Aug 2002 23:37:01 -0500
Alvaro Zuniga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am not sure that this is a good idea. What I understood was that a
> unixlke OS runs on top of windows. What is the point?
> 
> I suppose people could get hooked on linux/unix. NOT
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Alvaro Zuniga
> 
> PS: Emulators suck for the mostpart! LOL
> 
> Sorry, I am just 
> On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 18:17, John Hebert wrote:
> > Ed, you are gonna have fun with Cygwin:
> > http://www.cygwin.com
> > 
> > John Hebert
> > 
> > --- Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Thats what I'M all about! Except, I want to see
> > > Linux running ALL OVER our 
> > > corporate M$ network!
> > > By the way, what is Cygwin?
> > > 
> > > Ed
> > > 
> > > 
> > > At 02:57 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >And it smacks of desperation. I heard Liz Black
> > > >denegrate M$ this morning about the 22 computers
> > > for
> > > >that school. The reason they are going with Linux
> > > is
> > > >because M$ is auditing them for license compliance.
> > > >She was pretty pissed that M$ was picking on a
> > > public
> > > >school with hardly any budget.
> > > >
> > > >Sounds to me like M$ is rounding up the wagons for
> > > a
> > > >coming battle. I think the free|OSS community
> > > should
> > > >take the battle to the Win32 desktop and start
> > > >encouraging people to run free software like Open
> > > >Office and Mozilla. Cygwin Rules!!! :)
> > > >
> > > >John Hebert
> > > 
> > > 
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