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joombaga on April 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: File System Improvements to the Windows Subsystem ...

Yet they chose different terminology for WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit), and chose to store 32-bit binaries in the WoW64 directory.

masklinn on April 19, 2017 [–]

I don't know that Win64/WoW64 is a separate subsystem. I think it's a subset of the 64b version of the Win32 subsystem.

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