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RE: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy BIRTHdaydear Cygwin, happy birthday to youuuuu
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:14:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy BIRTHdaydear Cygwin, happy birthday to youuuuu
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, really, Cygwin got 10 years old, 10 days ago. The first entry in
> >> the ChangeLog was
> >>
> >> Wed Oct 18 15:34:49 1995 steve chamberlain <sac@slash.cygnus.com>
> >>
> >> * Moved from newlib.
> >>
> >> after newlib was pregnant for three months:
> >>
> >> Wed Jun 28 18:34:54 1995 Steve Chamberlain <sac@slash.cygnus.com>
> >>
> >> * configure.in (i[345]86-*-pe): New target (NT).
> >> * host/any: DLLTOOL new.
> >> * libc/sys/win32/{crt0.c, kernel32.def, longjmp.c, setjmp.c,
> syscalls.c
> >> wintypes.h,sys/file.h,sys/resource.h}: Preliminary support for
> >> WIN32 (just enough to cross host the comp-tools).
> >>
> >> Will Cygwin still exist in another 10 years? Well, I'm positive.
> >
> > Woohoo! Break out the cake and invite some hippos for entertainment!
> > Igor
>
> :-( When the hippos land in the cakes from that height, they're going to
> spray icing and jammy spongecake all over the walls!
Fine with me, as long as I'm outside that room... :-) But think of the
entertainment value!
Igor
P.S. I can think of a few people to put *into* the room, though... :-D
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