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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by sophistc on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:56AM (#26273504)
NT originally had a Unix subsystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by emptyparadise on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:02AM (#26273538)
Yeah, and WSL1 was something similar, but I was suggesting just Unix here, no Win32. Imagine GNU/NT!
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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by HeckFeck on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:05AM (#26276156)
If someone wanted to attempt this absolute bastardisation of God's will, you could try porting the GNU userland to run atop the ReactOS kernel.

We'd finally have the GPL-licenced microkernel OS of Stallman's dreams.

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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by wruza on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:24AM (#26275648)
Apart from fork() and custom async io (epoll, iocp) aren’t they pretty compatible even without cygwin? GNU relies on POSIX (afair), so wouldn’t NT features be unused extra?
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