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Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix? by arockwell on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:32PM (#425368)
Sorry I honestly can't, I've never heard of PowerShell, nor have I ever used win 2003 server.

However, the most obvious feature its missing is I can't run it on xp or vista. Why do I need to run a server to have a decent shell? I find having a nice shell handy for various day to day development tasks.

edit: whoops, turns out I'm totally wrong, thanks nfg.

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Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix? by nfg on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:41PM (#425383)
Yes you can, powershell is available for both XP and Vista. Google it.
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