Windows NT for Power Macintosh

Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by pjmlp on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:27PM (#40948622)

Ironically they had multiple iterations of it, with POSIX subsystem in NT, MKS Toolkit, Interix, Windows Services for UNIX, for various levels of "POSIX support", dropped everything on Windows Vista, only to create WSL out from Project Astoria ashes.

And before they got golden goose with MS-DOS/IBM deal, they were into the UNIX business with Xenix.

A few reasons why Linux would probably never taken off, had Microsoft stayed closer to their UNIX related projects.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by temac on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:02PM (#40949415)

There was actually "SUA" after "SFU", only removed in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by banish-m4 on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:34PM (#40950752)

It was mostly for running NFS to talk to other UNIX boxes, not to run UNIX software.

To make a Windows NT box UNIX-ish, there was MKS Toolkit. It predates Cygwin, msys, and djgpp.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by hylaride on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:50AM (#40968374)

I think Linux took off due to cost. If you're a startup or a web company with razor thin margins, you're not going to go Microsoft (or Sun).

Same story with MySQL.

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