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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by bergie on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:55PM (#22005624)
I think there was some token POSIX compatibility in Windows NT back then. Probably for some government contracts.
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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by lmm on Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:05PM (#22007234)
It actually worked pretty nicely - if anything better back in those days when software expected to run on different unixes, before the linux monoculture of today.
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