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vvanders on June 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button

I've heard it told that WSL was actually a repurposing of the Android emulation layer for winphone. If that's true it's a hell of an awesome pivot.

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