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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.361s | source
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zymhan ◴[30 Mar 16 17:09 UTC] No.11390932[source]▶
"Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux"."

I find it amazing that you can have such a functional Ubuntu environment by translating system calls. Microsoft does have the advantage of Linux being open-source I suppose, while the Wine project had to reverse engineer DLLs. Or have you supply them on your own.

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UK-AL ◴[30 Mar 16 17:17 UTC] No.11391011[source]▶
Windows NT had a POSIX subsystem awhile ago, not sure what happened to it. The NT Kernel was designed to have different personalities like Win32, OS/2, POSIX, etc

It could be an updated version.

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tonymillion ◴[30 Mar 16 17:21 UTC] No.11391057[source]▶
I came here to make the same comment.

Its ironic (old)microsoft exerted so much effort to put the personalities in place (OS/2, posix etc), then (mid)microsoft systematically destroyed that work under Balmer, and now (new)microsoft are reimplementing the same thing under a (seemingly) completely different system.

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1. akiselev ◴[30 Mar 16 17:51 UTC] No.11391393[source]▶
To be fair, this new implementation is very completely different. If we had the same kind of experience with virtualization and hardware with VT-i/x/d or AMD-V when Microsoft was developing personalities, the chips would have landed very differently.