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| Original author(s) | Kevin Lawton[1][2] |
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| Developer(s) | Community based; owned by Mandriva |
| Initial release | 1994[3] |
| Stable release | 2.8[4] 
/ 10 March 2024 |
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| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin OS, macOS), Windows, Windows CE along with its derivatives, OS/2, BeOS, MorphOS, AmigaOS, Android OS, PlayStation 2[5] |
| Platform | IA-32, x64 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Emulator |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | bochs |
Bochs (pronounced "box") is a portable IA-32 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator and debugger mostly written in C++ and distributed as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It supports emulation of the processor(s) (including protected mode), memory, disks, display, Ethernet, BIOS and common hardware peripherals of PCs.
Many guest operating systems can be run using the emulator including DOS, several versions of Linux, Xenix, Microsoft Windows, BSDs and Rhapsody OS (precursor of Mac OS X Public Beta). Bochs runs on many host operating systems, including Android OS, Linux, macOS, PlayStation 2, Windows, and Windows CE along with its derivatives.
Bochs is mostly used for operating system development (when an emulated operating system crashes, it does not crash the host operating system, so the emulated OS can be debugged) and to run other guest operating systems inside already running host operating systems. It can also be used to run older software — such as PC games — which will not run on non-compatible, or too fast computers.
- ^ Gael Duval (March 23, 2000). "MandrakeSoft buys Bochs for Linux and commits it to Open Source". Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
- ^ Thinking inside and outside the Bochs with Kevin Lawton Archived 2024-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, By Ken Hess, August 25, 2011, ZDNet
- ^ Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton starting in 1994. Archived 2022-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, 1.1. What is Bochs?, Chapter 1. Introduction to Bochs, Bochs User Manual
- ^ https://github.com/bochs-emu/Bochs/releases/tag/REL_2_8_FINAL.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Features". bochs.sourceforge.io. Retrieved 20 October 2016.