What is UWIN?
UWIN is a UNIX to Windows Integration Toolkit that gives you almost all the features of a traditional UNIX operating system on Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows ME, and Windows 95/98. • Why did we write UWIN? We needed a UNIX layer to port the AST Toolkit to Windows so that applications using the AST toolkit would run on Windows platforms without the need to recode or to support multiple versions of the software. At the time we started UWIN, there were no alternatives. Now there are alternatives such as Cygwin and Unix System Services, but neither meet our needs as closely as UWIN does. • Which is the latest version of UWIN available? Version 4.0 is the latest version of UWIN. • Who are the authors of UWIN? Most of the POSIX library was created David Korn, author of the KornShell at AT&T Research. Portions of the code were developed under contract by Wipro, Ltd, in India. The AST Toolkit which provides most of the UNIX utilities are part of the AST Toolkit developed primarly by Glenn Fow
