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Re:Windows Subsystem for Android by basementcat on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:36AM (#30087677)
One of the first subsystems for Windows NT was the OS/2 subsystem. Some versions even supported Presentation Manager (GUI applications).

https://second.wiki/wiki/2-subsystem

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Android by karmakaze on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:57AM (#30088036)
Never used that one. Makes sense though since NT grew out of research on OS/2 v3. The Posix subsystem[0] didn't work so well the times I tried working with it. The OS/2 subsystem didn't matter so much as Windows NT popularity outgrew that of OS/2 pretty quickly.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Android by mycall on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:46PM (#30095953)
If they open sourced the POSIX subsystem, it might have had a chance to keep growing.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Android by sedatk on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:27PM (#30088529)
Another original subsystem was POSIX subsystem which provided a UNIX-like layer on Windows.
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