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by chasil 1659 days ago
Get it into Busybox, and we will talk.

Until then, the footprint is too big, and the installed base is too small.

Microsoft itself is responsible for the POSIX shell - it was required to compile into a 64k text segment on Microsoft Xenix.

Without Bill's beloved Xenix, ksh88 would have been the POSIX standard.

It's all Microsoft's fault.