XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:55:30 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > Cygwin is a native environment on Windows. Ports of applications   
   > are done, sometimes using foreign namespaces on Windows.   
   >   
   > Notice in the following example, disktype ends in EXE and is a PE32   
   > in this particular case.   
   >   
   > For example, I downloaded "disktype" in the Cygwin tree, and   
   > it is invoked this way in a Windows command prompt.   
   8< snip >8   
      
   So Unix command lines under Windows?   
      
   > VirtualBox RAM requirements vary according to the OS you are   
   > running as a Guest. A Win11 Guest would be 4GB. A Win98 Guest   
   > would be 256MB, or one sixteenth as much RAM. In the old days,   
   > on a relatively small machine, I was able to run three VMs   
   > at the same time. One of them being that Win98 VM.   
   >   
   > If all the OSes you run as Guests, are gulping down the RAM, then   
   > yes, you need a large machine.   
   8< snip - RAM prices >8   
      
   I have 16 GB (15,7 GiB) of RAM (DDR4, dual channel) and using W11 and   
   7,7 GiB is being used atm. That's probably enough to run something like   
   Linux Mint, but it's a hassle to set up VirtualBox. Lucky for me, there   
   are YT videos.   
      
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