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Windows has had subsystems since the OS/2 era, and WSL1 was actually such a subsystem. Initrix was the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem.
by freeone3000 6y ago
Windows 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.