Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
by rbanffy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:40AM
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The main difference would be in that, since Windows has no native Unix environment, all these tools are added functionality while on the Mac, it overrides built-in functionality and can make things go a bit weird.
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Just like it doesn't have a native Win32 environment, rather different personalities built on top of a common layer.
UNIX environment on Windows is just like how IBM and Unisys mainframes deal with it.
Indeed. (Except that "WSL" should be read as "Windows Substitute for Linux.")
I don't remember FreeBSD or illumos calling their syscall compatibility layer for Linux Substitute.
Nor were they called “services for Linux.”
Nor are they called now, rather Subsystem.
I don't care what names marketing departments come up with.
Actually "for Linux" came from the legal department as Linux is a trademark and it's a common practice to indicate relationship with "for X" where X is a trademark (e.g. "Y for Twitter" instead for "Twitter Y" that would suggest close relationship, from the same company).
Thanks for the clarification.
Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
by rhinoceraptor on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @08:26AM
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It's more like a "Windows Subsystem for Linux Applications"