Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Sep 2006 19:00 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
"Want to run best of breed apps under both Windows and Unix? Eric Hall tells you about an option for doing this: Microsoft's Posix subsystem. It lets Unix apps think they are using regular Unix, but they are actually using Windows instead."
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2006-09-08
Actually the Win32 subsystem is privileged and serves also as as a 'gateway' to NT kernel for other subsystems (POSIX, OS/2).
So the path is still posix -> win32 -> nt.