Mercury on Mingw32 or Linux

[Joseph M. Dusio]

Thanks to both  Fergus Henderson and Dominique de Waleffe for the 
quick replies to my questions.  Based upon the responses, I'm gathering
that CYGWIN Beta-19 is not the platform to use.

	Yesterday I was made aware of MingW32.  Is that a feasible
platform to put between Win95 and Mercury?

If not, how, if at all can Mercury be reasonably executed on Win95?

I am also curious to learn if I should expect a significant performance
increase for Mercury by running the same intel platform (P5-90Mhz, 32M
Ram) with Linux.

Opinions are welcome.

Thanks,

    Joe Dusio