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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by pjmlp on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:26PM (#23643846)
If Microsoft had been more serious regarding POSIX personality, Linux would never had taken off.

Most devs only want some kind of CLI and POSIX like capabilities.

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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by chx on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:49PM (#23644101)
> Most devs only want some kind of CLI and POSIX like capabilities.

which is why WSL is so great...

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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by pjmlp on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:34AM (#23649009)
Indeed, and WSL instead of a pure POSIX, because that allows to tap into the ecosystem that thinks Linux === UNIX, without having to recompile anything.

An approach already taken by other UNIX clones with their Linux compatibility syscalls layer.

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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by anthk on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:42PM (#23644026)
You forgot X11 and Motif. Without that Windows would be useless back in the day.
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by pjmlp on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:38PM (#23646034)
Not really, because there were plenty of Win32 X Servers.

Back in the day I was using Hummingbird.

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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by anthk on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:03AM (#23648593)
You forgot about porting and compiling software which depended on X11 and Motif. Linux won because of that.
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by pjmlp on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:31AM (#23648993)
What for? That is what having something like Hummingbird took care of.

I used to admin UNIX and develop for it from Windows NT/2000 workstations.

Also the FOSS version of Motif only appeared when Motif wasn't that much relevant and most enterprise shops were migrating to CORBA and Web as integration points.

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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by anthk on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:42PM (#23657879)
No, I mean when Motif + Slackware were an alternative to SGI machines in a brief time. Those were supported by big multimedia companies.
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