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Most platforms have a POSIX implementation, and a place for the POSIX shell (which standardizes job control that originated in Bill Joy's csh).

This includes Microsoft, who was the biggest UNIX vendor of the 80s with their Xenix series that was sold to SCO.

Microsoft Windows NT also implements a POSIX subsystem, which has waxed and waned over the life of Windows. The POSIX shell is quite relevant to modern Windows, and is worthy of study by any serious user.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

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