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I was under the impression that the name arose out of trademark requirements. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
by tobinfricke 6y ago
I was under the impression that the name arose out of trademark requirements.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093517
- freeone3000 6y agoWindows has had subsystems since the OS/2 era, and WSL1 was actually such a subsystem. Initrix was the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoThere was a POSIX subsystem in Windows NT before Microsoft acquired Interix (which became Windows Services for Unix).
- shawnz 6y agoWSL1 isn't actually an NT subsystem like Interix was.
- tobinfricke 6y agoYes, but the name "Linux Subsystem for Windows" would have been much less confusing.
- dataflow 6y agoCould they have just called it the Windows Linux Subsystem?
- knome 6y agoI assumed it was marketing. They didn't want to put the other guy's name first.