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   Joe Monk to All   
   Re: microsoft vs linux   
   04 Jul 21 05:04:47   
   
   From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > I'm not 100% sure I understand your summary, but   
   > the apps I am mainly interested in (such as gccwin),   
   > are Win32 programs that are dependent on nothing   
   > more than msvcrt.dll. ie not even kernel32.dll.   
   >   
   > So I wish to run gccwin under PDOS-generic   
   > (essentially the same as PDOS/386 but with the   
   > BIOS decoupled and encapsulated in PDPCLIB,   
   > and FAT encapsulated in PDPCLIB).   
      
   Well ... gccwin has dependencies on either: CYGWIN or MINGW or MINGW-X64,   
   depending on the version of Windows.   
      
   Joe   
      
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