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No, that layer was famously WeirdIX - it was a literally unusable box-ticking exercise.

They later bought Interix, who created the foundations of Windows Services For Unix, which was a much better and actually usable Unixlike layer, running directly as an NT subsystem, at the same level as Win32.

(This is as distinct from Cygwin, which supplies a GNU layer on top of Win32.)



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