Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its...
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foray into achieving Unix-like compatibility on Windows was the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem, superseded by Windows Services for UNIX via MKS/Interix, which...
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Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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POSIX (section POSIX for Microsoft Windows)
as a component in Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) and finally incorporated as a component in Windows Server 2003 R2 and later Windows OS releases under...
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Interix (redirect from Subsystem for Unix-based Applications)
POSIX-conformant[citation needed] Unix subsystem for Windows NT operating systems. Interix was a component of Windows Services for UNIX, and a superset of the Microsoft...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons. Alternative terms include service (used in Windows, from Windows NT onwards...
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Shell script (redirect from Unix shell scripting)
of Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX), Hamilton C shell, and UWIN (AT&T Unix for Windows) enables Unix shell programs to run on Windows NT-based systems...
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Kill (command) (redirect from Kill (Unix))
subsystem that Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX provides (Microsoft acquired Windows Services for Unix wholesale via their purchase of Softway Systems...
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Microsoft POSIX subsystem (category Windows components)
capabilities on the Windows desktop. The POSIX subsystem was replaced in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by "Windows Services for UNIX", (SFU) which is...
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KornShell (category Unix shells)
"Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.0". Technet.microsoft.com. 5 December 2007. Retrieved 2009-10-22. Anatole Olczak (2001). The Korn shell: Unix and...
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Outlook.com (redirect from Windows Live Hotmail Mobile)
Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being partly converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the...
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List of command-line interpreters (section Unix-like)
Microsoft which provided Unix environment on Windows NT Windows Subsystem for Linux – Feature for a Linux environment in Windows "The Cisco IOS command-line...
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Pthreads (section POSIX Threads for Windows)
project. Interix environment subsystem available in the Windows Services for UNIX/Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications package provides a native port of...
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Hyper-V Windows Services for UNIX, a UNIX environment for Windows Windows Server 2003 R2 was distributed in two CDs, one containing a copy of Windows Server...
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is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s...
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In Windows NT operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background. It is similar in concept to a Unix daemon. A...
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allow the porting of Unix programs to Windows. Windows NT-type systems have a POSIX environmental subsystem. Subsystem for Unix-based Applications (previously...
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Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure is the basis for the...
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Rmdir (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
be chosen by Windows. Having two files named the same with different case sensitivity is allowed either when Windows Services for Unix is installed or...
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MKS Toolkit (category Unix emulators)
provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to Microsoft Windows. It was originally created for MS-DOS...
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Resource Kit (redirect from Windows Resource Kit)
of the Unix Korn shell are available with many of the operating system Resource Kits, including those for both the Windows 95-98 and Windows NT-2000...
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supports multiple architectures, including Windows, NetWare, Linux and several flavours of Unix and is used for user administration and configuration and...
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Samba (software) (category Unix network-related software)
Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Microsoft Windows Server domain, either as a Domain...
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Sun RPC (category Unix software)
in most Unix-like systems. Microsoft supplied an implementation for Windows in their (now discontinued) Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX product;...
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replaced by Interix, which is a part of Windows Services for UNIX. This was in turn replaced by the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The security subsystem deals...
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X Window System for Microsoft Windows, produced by StarNet Communications. It is based on X11R7.4. X- Win32 allows remote display of UNIX windows on...
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Netstat (redirect from Netstat (Unix))
on Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. It is used for finding problems...
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Explorer for UNIX is a discontinued version of the Internet Explorer graphical web browser that was available free of charge and produced by Microsoft for use...
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The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project...
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1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...
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