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EvanAndersonyesterday at 5:52 PM1 replyview on HN

> ... Or better yet, just switch everything to full POSIX.

Interix[0] did a pretty good job of this, but MSFT killed it. I was compiling GNU tools w/ GCC and running bash under Interix back in in 2000 under Windows 2000. It was grand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix


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dekhnyesterday at 6:50 PM

I ported a million-line, OpenGL/Motif application using Interix (before it was acquired). Indeed, it was grand.