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I predict that ntsync will eventually evolve into full blown ntoskrnl.ko and there would be virtually no overhead on calling Windows API. You can almost call it a Linux Subsystem for Windows.

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It would be fun to call it Windows Subsystem for Linux!

which would be the right use of the term. WSL was originally called LXSS = linux subsystem. As I understand, lawyers stepped in soon after.

They already did the same thing 25 years ago with "Windows Services for UNIX": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

Which is also backwards.

The two terms seem semantically identical (i.e., ambiguous and therefore meaningless) to me.

You wouldn't call a Nintendo emulator "Windows emulator for Nintendo" would you.

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