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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in ... by ocdtrekkie on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:11PM (#34060690)
That's actually sort of false! WSL was originally designed for Android, to enable Android apps on Windows Mobile phones. (I have a Lumia which has a test build of this from back in the day.)

I'm unsure when the branding decision was made, but the possibility of again involving Android support was probably considered.

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in ... by dataflow on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:33PM (#34060824)
Amazing! Thanks.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in ... by lloeki on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:46PM (#34060917)
I am quite sure this has not much to do with Android, given that this, including the naming scheme, traces back to 1999 with "Windows Services for UNIX".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

Funnily enough it lacks "subsystem" but its ancestor was in 1993 "Microsoft POSIX subsystem".

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

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