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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

a screenshot of WSL9x running on Windows 95. Three MS-DOS prompts are open running WSL9x ptys. The focused one is running fastfetch, showing basic machine information and a nice ansi coloured penguin. Other windows show the output of ps, ls /dev, mount, uname -a, and tty.