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		tjakab on Jan 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen Ironically, Windows NT was certified as POSIX compliant because at the time it was a requirement for systems used by the US government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

lmm on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

Not only that, there was a buzzing community around it. I'm never quite sure whether geNToo was a joke, but if it was then I wanted to do it for real. But then MS killed the whole API.

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