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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet by nathanaldensr on Saturday October 14, 2017 @03:24PM (#15473737)
This is the first thing I thought when I saw that comment. The Windows NT kernel is one of the best and most stable ever written. Why should Microsoft throw away all that investment?
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet by cptskippy on Saturday October 14, 2017 @08:53PM (#15475221)
Seriously, the original NT Kernel was designed to be Posix compliant to run a UNIX environment. It eventually grew away from that but since Vista, Microsoft has been extricating unnecessary Win32 bits to Userland to take it back to it's roots. I think the MinWin project was completed prior to Windows 10 / Server 2016.

Linux was developed as a Unix compatible environment because Unix wasn't an option on commodity hardware. BSD isn't UNIX or Linux.

Why can't NT exist in the same area as a *nix compatible system?

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