Another interesting thing to explore would be colinux which was a bit similar to WSL but third party.
probably too mainstream, there was other hacked ways of running linux on windows using debuggers and other memory map hacks...
BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
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Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#12Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
You really wouldn't. I developed code for Coherent, if anyone remembers that UNIX clone. I honestly never want that to come back.
I dont suppose you have coherent 8086/80286 at all? I should have ordered it as a kid but I'd been told so many times to never trust mailorder. It still bugs me I didn't send in the $99.99
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#13Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
Doesn’t this sort of exist today with Cygwin/MSYS2/Git Bash/etc?
not really, the exe's are a.out so it's more like EMX. It's broken up like services more like HURD, and extended to 32bit on Win16.
It's far more cooler being able to run on Windows 3.1
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#14Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
Totally. I don't want to derail the conversation too much but when I look at what Notch has become since he became a billionaire it's frankly pathetic. Princes & Kings Isn't it strange how princes and kings, and clowns that caper in sawdust rings, and common people, like you and me, are builders for eternity? Each is given a list of rules; a shapeless mass; a bag of tools. And each must fashion, ere life is flown, A…
What happened to Notch?
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#15There was also SFU which was a first party “BSD on Windows”
I had to use it in the past and it’s genuinely awful. MobaXterm was the best before WSL (imo)
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn’t this sort of exist today with Cygwin/MSYS2/Git Bash/etc?
not really, the exe's are a.out so it's more like EMX. It's broken up like services more like HURD, and extended to 32bit on Win16. It's far more cooler being able to run on Windows 3.1
Sure, but from a user perspective? It says you could run vi/gcc/etc. in BoW, which you can easily do. I don't know why GGP would want to spend millions (surely would cost way more than millions) nor billions recreating something that already exists?
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#17What's that irc client?
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#18There was also SFU which was a first party “BSD on Windows” I had to use it in the past and it’s genuinely awful. MobaXterm was the best before WSL (imo) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
SFU replaced the posix subsystem with an OpenBSD port and more capable thing for NT/2000 etc.
SFU was so much later to the game, while BOW ran on Windows 3.1 which would have been great had it had far bigger appeal as you could just run it on such lesser machines. The best part being no formatting, no device drivers, or changes to the OS at all. I just copied over to my PS/2, and was playing hack 1.03 in no time.
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#19What's that irc client?
I just cobbled together IRC 2.9. I don't see why anything else more useful could build. Ive also built Apache 1.3.1 and gotten it to run.
https://archive.org/details/apache131_for_BOW
It's really cool how BOW can totally use winsock, and bridge that gap of Unix networking tools on Windows 3.1
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#20There was also SFU which was a first party “BSD on Windows” I had to use it in the past and it’s genuinely awful. MobaXterm was the best before WSL (imo) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
Hey. Microsoft's SFU[1] is alive and well, back when I was running servers getting DDoSed by chargen reflection, as far as I can tell, most of the reflectors were running chargen from SFU.
[1] Well, Microsoft published it, but IIRC, another company developed it.