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And now I'm running WSL daily on my Windows Workstation. History rhymes with itself
by lordleft 6y ago
And now I'm running WSL daily on my Windows Workstation. History rhymes with itself
- zwieback 6y agoAnd basically for free, all those old OSes were hundreds or thousands of dollars in the 80s! I did projects in OS/2 1.x and Xenix as well as VMS but not on my own nickel.
- rbanffy 6y agoHad Microsoft stayed with Xenix, you wouldn’t even need WSL.
- phendrenad2 6y agoAssuming Xenix would catch on the way Windows did, that is.
- rbanffy 6y agoWindows really caught on when OEMs started bundling it for free.
- simonh 6y agoIt’s an interesting alternate universe. Microsoft building a graphical shell and easy to use object oriented development tools on top of Unix underpinnings to compete with the Mac.
- pjmlp 6y agoWindows NT, but the POSIX subsystem was only as checkbox for goverment contracts.
- pjmlp 6y agoOr the 2nd iteration of it, had Microsoft kept POSIX subsystem for NT properly updated with the same tooling support as Win32, Linux would never had taken off.