A bit of XENIX history (2014)

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by rbanffy on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:00PM (#26728485)

Had Microsoft stayed with Xenix, you wouldn’t even need WSL.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by simonh on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:40PM (#26732433)

It’s an interesting alternate universe. Microsoft building a graphical shell and easy to use object oriented development tools on top of Unix underpinnings to compete with the Mac.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by pjmlp on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:19AM (#26736331)

Windows NT, but the POSIX subsystem was only as checkbox for goverment contracts.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by pjmlp on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:17AM (#26736321)

Or the 2nd iteration of it, had Microsoft kept POSIX subsystem for NT properly updated with the same tooling support as Win32, Linux would never had taken off.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by phendrenad2 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:57PM (#26730307)

Assuming Xenix would catch on the way Windows did, that is.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by rbanffy on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:48AM (#26736529)

Windows really caught on when OEMs started bundling it for free.

[ Parent | on HN ]