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a.s.h blossom

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like, everything else is either a UNIX clone, a UNIX descendant, or is designed to be compatible with UNIX-esque systems, but windows has absolutely no UNIX blood in it and has actively refused to implement better support for other systems.

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The reason why the hosts file in Windows is located in a weird place and called "hosts" is a UNIX compatibility compromise. It also accepts forward slash as a directory separator. Windows NT was POSIX compatible at one point as well.

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