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Grazester
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Why not just make a POSIX complaint Windows in the future?
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tjakab
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Ironically, Windows NT was certified as POSIX compliant because at the time it was a requirement for systems used by the US government:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
lmm
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Not only that, there was a buzzing community around it. I'm never quite sure whether geNToo was a joke, but if it was then I wanted to do it for real. But then MS killed the whole API.
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