Ancient UNIX/BSD emulation on Windows download

Providing an easy to use platform for running Ancient UNIX & BSD on windows.

Features

Easy to run for Windows users!
Legacy software repository
Added Linux, FreeBSD & Solaris x86 support
Research UNIX
BSD for the PDP-11 & VAX
Early BSD for the PC including 386BSD & NetBSD
Early Linux support

Project Samples

Using ircII-4.4 on 4.3 BSD Wisconsin Unix

Logging into 4.2 BSD.. Now with networking!

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License

BSD License, GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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enrm1988 Posted 2019-09-22

It's really a cool idea to give modern Windows users to feel an old school Unix system

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Posted 2020-01-23

Glad you enjoy it!
tuxhat Posted 2013-07-30

Thanks yeah that is the easy way.. i think the wisconsin had alot of SUNOS source in this release of BSD 4.3 UNIX

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sytsezelf Posted 2013-01-16

Ancient unix, or more correctly: the real, original, unadulterated Unix. Great stuff.

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neozeed2 Posted 2009-07-23

The easiest way to run legacy BSD UNIX on a Windows computer.

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Windows

Intended Audience

Developers

User Interface

Console/Terminal

Programming Language

Related Categories

C Operating System Kernels, C Operating Systems

Registered

2007-09-05

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