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Alt text: meme with the 'Always has been' format Linux, MacOS, OpenBSD and ChromeOS logos on top of the Earth The first astronaut says 'Wait, it's all Unix?' A Windows logo, on top of the second astronaut. The second astronaut says 'Always has been' and points a gun to the first astronaut.

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 20 points 7 months ago

Windows was this close to be Unix. Windows was POSIX.1-compliant, and Windows Service for UNIX was also a thing.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

That is Windows NT personalities. It was originally able to run OS/2 stuff too. Doesn't really make NT a UNIX. Note: They used this stuff for WSLv1, but it was slow and had same issue as WINE. Swapping underlying implementation brings out bugs of the software above.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 7 months ago

I'm more of a "if it swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's a duck" kind of guy.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago

That is a low bar for duckdom.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

duckdom

I never thought I'd find a duck with a whip attractive, but here we are...

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