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On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 16:34 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> Then MS switched emphasis, so that the Windows API was the primary
> personality of OS/2 3.0, and renamed it Windows NT.

Dave Cutler came from DEC (where he was one of the resident Unix-haters) 
to mastermind the Windows NT project in 1988. When did the OS/2→NT pivot 
take place?

> That also had an OS/2 personality at the start, along with a POSIX
> personality.

Funny, you’d think they would use that same “personality” system to 
implement WSL1, the Linux-emulation layer. But they didn’t.

I think the whole “personality” concept, along with the supposed 
portability to non-x86 architectures, had just bit-rotted away by that 
point.