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Seems unlikely. The success of Linux had a lot more to do with performance, resource requirements, and security than POSIX compliance. You could get a lot of t
by ogre_codes 6y ago
Seems unlikely.
The success of Linux had a lot more to do with performance, resource requirements, and security than POSIX compliance. You could get a lot of the essential pieces running on Windows, it just required spending twice as much on hardware to do it.
- pjmlp 6y agoQuite unlikely. Linux in 1994 didn't had any of that, just a toy OS trying to be UNIX. Had Windows NT kept its POSIX compatibility story in a proper way, hardly anyone would bother to contribute. Just like GCC only got serious contributions after Sun started the trend to sell UNIX SDKs and no longer have the development tools as part of a base UNIX installation.