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