Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

[dewar at gnat dot com]

<<Doesn't x86/alpha Interix support also fall under the same cloud then? It
is also an unbundled product, albeit now owned by Microsoft the OS vendor,
but still not part of the base OS.
>>

That's confused, Interix has exactly the same status as Win32, it is a
subsystem of NT. You cannot use the NT kernel directly (for one thing, its
interfaces are not documented -- it is probably the only kernel in the world
which is not only proprietary, but its interfaces are considered proprietary
and secret -- and the Navy declares it to be an "open system" :-)

So in practice using NT means using NT + one of the subsystems, and the
combination of the two corresponds to a normal operating system.

So if it is OK to call Win32 an OS (and people usually mean NT kernel + Win 32
subsystem when they say NT), then it is equally right to call the NT kernel
+ Interix an OS).