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That's because Dave Cutler (of DEC VMS fame) specifically designed the NT kernel to make it easy to add new ABIs. NT originally supported running Win32, OS/2, a
by etatoby 9y ago
That's because Dave Cutler (of DEC VMS fame) specifically designed the NT kernel to make it easy to add new ABIs. NT originally supported running Win32, OS/2, and POSIX executables. Now apparently they added Linux executables.