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From my bad memory; You could run XENIX programs on Windows NT up to NT 3.51 It is very likely there are still traces of XENIX left in Windows 8.
by tnuc 14y ago
From my bad memory;
You could run XENIX programs on Windows NT up to NT 3.51
It is very likely there are still traces of XENIX left in Windows 8.
- asveikau 14y agoYou must be thinking of the POSIX subsystem. NT's design was meant to have several personalities, of which Win32 was one, OS/2 was one, and POSIX was one, supposedly on equal footing. The POSIX subsystem still exists, I believe you can get it by the control panel under "Programs and Features", "Turn Windows features on or off", and when you check the box it directs you to a website to get GNU tools to run on top of it. (This part used to come from a company called Interix, acquired by MS in '99 according to Wikipedia.)
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- justincormack 14y agoI know one of the ex-Interix guys it was an interesting story.