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Tangent, but Windows NT had a POSIX subsystem for a while.
by fuzztester 3y ago
Tangent, but Windows NT had a POSIX subsystem for a while.
- temac 3y agoKind of for a very long while. You then had a descendant SFU from some SP of NT4 to XP / Server 2003, then a further one SUA until Windows 8 / Server 2012. With some code flowing between various companies. I think SFU still used the Posix NT subsystem core. Probably also SUA, although I'm less sure. Not really the case WSL1, though (although probably the core NT kernel was more ready to support it, thanks to its history).
- fuzztester 3y agoI knew about SFU, Services For Unix. What was SUA?
- voidfunc 3y agoSubsystem for Unix-based Applications also known as "Interix"
- chungy 3y agoFrom NT 3.1 until Windows 8.0. Windows 8.1 removed it, and Windows 10 offered WSL1 as its replacement.