alt Hacker NewsI imagine a near future where TCP/IP stacks, and device drivers are interchangeable between operating systems. In Linux, NDISWrapper [1] enables to use Windows drivers in Linux but it's a wrapper (with all due respect to this project).
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awesome_dude • today at 6:45 PM
Microsoft started out with BSD's TCP/IP stack, but dropped it for their own (back in Windows 3.5 apparently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495551)
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Sorta, but only with ancient windows XP drivers. It was a useful stopgap of it's era but linux networking drivers have more than caught up in the meantime.