Comment by nok22kon

6 days ago

Just like Windows storing 64-bit binaries in System32 dir and 32-bit binaries in SysWOW64 dir kind of makes sense (if you are insane)

Also: You boot from the 'system' volume, and the operating system is stored on the 'boot' volume. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417059

Although Microsoft then spoiled that explanation a couple of years later by switching to a virtual machine system instead of the NT kernel emulating the not-present Linux kernel.