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by advisedwang 36 days ago
It would be fun to call it Windows Subsystem for Linux!
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sedatk 36 days ago
which would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after.
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sunaookami 36 days ago
They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
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wmf 36 days ago
Which is also backwards.
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throwaway27448 36 days ago
The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.
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sedatk 34 days ago
You wouldn't call a Nintendo emulator "Windows emulator for Nintendo" would you.
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