If you still think that operating systems are tied to hardware, you need to update your thinking; nowadays there are lots of options that let you run one operating system within another or in parallel ...

I want to permanently alias 'gcc' to 'gcc -mno-cygwin'. Is there any way that I can set that up so I don't have to do it everytime I fire up Cygwin?

I will start this post by admitting I have no idea where to start...<BR><BR>I am starting a C++ class which hasn't given us specifics on what compiler to use - I think it is assumed that most will use ...