Environmental Subsystems (Cont.)
16-Bit Windows Environment:
Provided by a VDM that incorporates Windows on
Windows
Provides the Windows 3.1 kernel routines and
subroutines for window manager and GDI functions
The POSIX subsystem is designed to run POSIX
applications following the POSIX.1 standard
which is based on the UNIX model
OS/2 subsystems runs OS/2 applications