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Windows exposes personalities above the kernel, in the NT days that meant OS/2 1.x, POSIX and Win32.

Nowadays on Windows 10 it means UWP, Win32 and Linux syscalls.

In theory someone could call the ntdll.dll and create a new personality but those APIs are undocumented and only possibly made available to Microsoft partners.



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