Messages in this thread | | | From | David Schwartz <> | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:55:07 -0800 | Subject | Re: Is this going to be true ? |
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:33:58 -0500, Michael Melanson wrote: >Didn't they support an "Unix subsystem" on older versions of NT, to emulate >console Unix apps? I seem to remember something about a that a while ago.
Many versions of Windows have an almost completely useless POSIX subsystem. It supplies everything POSIX demands and not a drop more, including essentially no way to interact with the other subsystems. I believe Microsoft implemented it simply to be able to put a checkbox next to 'POSIX compliant'.
DS
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