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I think the parent comment is talking about the NT kernel rather than the Win32 subsystem that is Windows. Today NT really only has 1 subsystem (Windows) but it

I think the parent comment is talking about the NT kernel rather than the Win32 subsystem that is Windows. Today NT really only has 1 subsystem (Windows) but it definitely can support multiple ones, it even had one for Unix (really more a POSIX layer) back in the day.

EvanAnderson 5y ago
Two subsystems for POSIX, really. There was the original POSIX subsystem[0] that shipped in NT 3.1 thru 4.0, and the third-party OpenNT that became Interix[1] after Microsoft purchased it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX