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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! SunOS 2.0 under emulator-sun-2

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Operating System Kernels, Operating Systems

License

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

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  • enrm1988 Posted 2019-09-22
    5 out of 5 stars
    It's really a cool idea to give modern Windows users to feel an old school Unix system
    1 user found this review helpful.
    Reply from Ancient UNIX/BSD emulation on Windows
    Posted 2020-01-23
    Glad you enjoy it!
  • tuxhat Posted 2013-07-30
    5 out of 5 stars
    Thanks yeah that is the easy way.. i think the wisconsin had alot of SUNOS source in this release of BSD 4.3 UNIX
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • sytsezelf Posted 2013-01-16
    5 out of 5 stars
    Ancient unix, or more correctly: the real, original, unadulterated Unix. Great stuff.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • neozeed2 Posted 2009-07-23
    5 out of 5 stars
    The easiest way to run legacy BSD UNIX on a Windows computer.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Windows

Intended Audience

Developers

User Interface

Console/Terminal

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Operating System Kernels, C Operating Systems

Registered

2007-09-05
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