Re:Windows Subsystem for Android
by bluGill on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:40AM
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The design of the NT kernel was very well done and doing this type of thing is one of their explicate goals. Microsoft did a great job of getting great people to do great things in the early 1990s and they are still benefiting from that. (though in the 1990s computer hardware wasn't really up to running NT)
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If that's like WSL2 that's a complete VM. And WSL1 was already departing from the trasitional NT subsystems anyway (because e.g. they were not designed for completely bypassing NT userspace to the point of not mapping it)
The hardware was just fine - in fact, your average late-'90s piece of junk would run NT much faster than Win95/98. The problem was the lack of drivers.
Win98 maybe, but that is borderline. Your average piece of junk computer from the Win95 era didn't have enough memory, but that is also mid-90s. By the late 90s high end machines were coming with enough memory, though the low end machines still weren't up to it.
Drivers of course were an issue.