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Little trivia: There has been an official UNIX subsystem in Windows since 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org
by alpb 6y ago
Little trivia: There has been an official UNIX subsystem in Windows since 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX It was a company called Interix, and I believe it was not maintained for a long time (but continued to ship). IIRC the reason it was there was to satisfy DoD contracts or something similar, that required a POSIX-compliance.
- mrpippy 6y ago“has been” isn’t the case, it was removed in Windows 8. It worked on some Windows 7 variants though, with a separate download of tools.
- znpy 6y agoAh, I remember that. Netbsd/pkgsrc developers bragged about how portable their software was that they could even do their development on windows using that thing.
- Koshkin 6y agoTo be fair, "that thing" was a real UNIX OS running on top of the NT kernel.
- pjmlp 6y agoYour timeline is a bit off, Windows NT released in 1993 had POSIX personality already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT Had Microsoft taken care of it like other OS vendors did with their POSIX compatibility layers, instead of using it for DoD contracts and Win32 migrations, and FOSS UNIX clones would never had mattered. The only reason I started tinkering with Linux, was that Xenix and DG/UX were a little hard to come by for work assignments at home, and stuff like Coherent wasn't really a solution.
- asveikau 6y ago> FOSS UNIX clones would never had mattered. I am not sure about that. NT licenses weren't cheap back in the day, and Linux was $0. (And didn't come with baggage like a more expensive SKU to support more CPUs)
- pjmlp 6y agoNT licenses were included in the computer price anyway. I was running NT during university, and eventually dual booting with Linux.