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		pjmlp 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercom... More like, WSL1 was "Linux API on top of NT kernel picoprocesses", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Hyper-V"

mycall 12 months ago [–]

I wish WSL1 was open sourced

pjmlp 12 months ago | [–]

Picoprocesses are based on Drawbridge research, so at least there is some reading about how it all works,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/under-the-hood-of-microsofts-w...

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