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Based on Microsoft’s ability to plan and manage product naming I think you stumbled on a coincidence there rather than actual intent.
by gw99 4y ago
Based on Microsoft’s ability to plan and manage product naming I think you stumbled on a coincidence there rather than actual intent.
- e12e 4y agoI think the concept of "sub system" is quite integral to the NT kernel. Might have been easier if they had stolen the name from user-mode linux - which might be more suitable for wsl2 in some ways... But that was/is a quite different type of project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux See "Win32 environment subsystem" and "OS/2 environment subsystem" here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT Then there was coLinux: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux Maybe they should've called it LINE (after WINE)....