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diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview.sgml b/winsup/doc/overview.sgml index 3dce16707..d07ec5834 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview.sgml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of a DLL providing substantial <ulink url="http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX">POSIX</ulink> (Portable Operating System Interface) system call functionality, and a collection of tools, which provide a Linux look and feel. The Cygwin DLL -works with all x86 and AMD64 versions of Windows NT since Windows 2000. +works with all x86 and AMD64 versions of Windows NT since Windows XP SP3. The API follows the <ulink url="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html">Single Unix Specification</ulink> as much as possible, and then Linux practice. @@ -108,12 +108,16 @@ have seen continuous development. </para> <para> -The latest major improvement in this development is the 1.7 release in +The biggest major improvement in this development is the 1.7 release in 2009, which dropped Windows 95/98/Me support in favor of using Windows NT features more extensively. It adds a lot of new features like case-sensitive filenames, NFS interoperability, IPv6 support and much more.</para> +<para>The latest big improvement is the 64 bit Cygwin DLL which +allows to run natively on AMD64 Windows machines. The first release +available in a 64 bit version is 1.7.19.</para> + </sect1> DOCTOOL-INSERT-highlights |