This is regarding "version one"
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
Sometimes known as Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
See also:
 I darken its background colour
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Software >
Chocolatey: babun
https://babun.github.io/
A customized Cygwin for Linux on Windows: Zsh, Bash, Git and other Linux software, all pre-configured.
Can install other software provided by Cygwin.
My configuration specific to Babun is currently scattered throughout my git repository, just findinall Babun (using my findinall() )
placeholder - I ended up using Windows Subsystem for Linux
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(on Wikipedia)
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/ [ 1 ] dosemu.org is just a placeholder/redirect
A DOS emulator.
Footnotes
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.winehq.org/
For running Windows software on Linux.
I had some significant attempts using this to run World of Warcraft, but it was ultimately unsuccessful.
Wine Is Not an Emulator
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.qemu.org/ [ 1 ] was http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
A platform emulator thingy thing. With powerful features and stuff.
I haven't really directly used it, except briefly with MultiBootUSB where it didn't have mouse support.
Footnotes
Software >
Games > Oldschool emulation >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mamedev.org/
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
