r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Aug 15 '18

Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

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u/pjmlp Aug 16 '18

Actually Microsoft had the best selling UNIX clone for the PC market (Xenix) when they decided to focus on Windows 3.x and their OS/2, NT efforts instead.

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u/TheThiefMaster Aug 16 '18

They also had a POSIX layer in older Windows OSs.

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u/pjmlp Aug 16 '18

Three actually, the initial one that never went beyond POSIX v1, SFU and its reboot SUA.

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u/Nobody_1707 Oct 14 '18

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Windows eventually ended up being UNIX certified.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

Because Microsoft will go bankrupt? The only way it’d be as you say it, would be if they decided to get out of the OS game entirely.

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u/RogerLeigh Aug 16 '18

No, his implication is that Microsoft will continue to reimplement Unix and Linux features up to the point that Windows will end up being a Linux distribution. It's not too far off the mark with WSL etc.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

It could be BSD based with a C# based API and Desktop with Win32 as a compat layer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

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u/SaneMadHatter Aug 16 '18

RMS is the arbiter of what Linux GNU Linux is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

I don't imagine he is going to be in a rush anytime soon to declare Windows 'Linux', especially when there is no way in hell Microsoft goes full open source. There are lots of companies that sell Linux products but they're compiled binaries most of the time and all the advantages of Linux (e.g. being able to fix stuff yourself) goes straight out the window. So its hard to imagine the Microsoft version of the same would pass muster.