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Originally Posted by rkomar
It was practical as a checkbox filler in some government contracts (or, at least, that's what my dim memory of the times offers up).
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Yes, that's my recollection, too. If memory serves me correctly, POSIX compliance was a requirement for computers bought by the government.
I strongly suspect that this Linux API is being implemented as a subsystem, given that the blog article specifically says that such applications will have no access to the Windows API or Windows applications. Such isolation is a characteristic of subsystems.