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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by chrisdotcode on Thursday March 31, 2016 @09:10AM (#11396861)
> A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls.

We've actually even seen this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

(EDIT: To nitpick, I think the MS POSIX subsystem actually implemented the POSIXy standards as native code, as opposed to the translation layer that's mentioned here).

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by facorreia on Thursday March 31, 2016 @09:41AM (#11397045)
Also similar to the discontinued Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA).

And reminescent of Cooperative Linux, although that worked at the driver level and allowed the actual Linux kernel to be used.

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