[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:34:01 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 4/26/2024 12:43 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:36:41 +1200, David Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>> Why go to all the effort reimplementing the whole Linux syscall
>>> interface and keeping it up-to-date when you could just run the Linux
>>> kernel in a VM.
>> 
>> Because that was what the whole “personality” system was supposed to be
>> for. In practice, it didn’t work.
> 
> When the subsystem concept was invented virtualization technology was
> not where it is today.

Excuses, excuses. Why did Microsoft waste their time trying to create 
WSL1, then?