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		nobody9999 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source > WSL1 (the original magic syscall translation vision). Actually, the OG "magic syscall translation" is Cygwin[0], which dates back to 1995[1]. [0] https://cygwin.com [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin Edit: Fixed prose.

rao-v 9 months ago [–]

Absolutely! I remember playing and struggling with Cygwin back in the day… I meant original in the sense of the original vision for WSL.

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