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Windows 3.1, any cop? (stifle laughter please!)
iancom:
Afraid the extent of my Windows experience goes back only as far as Win 3.0...
3.0 was absolutely dreadful. don't even *think* of trying to get it to cooperate with any other machines, MS or otherwise.
3.1 was a little better though still no native support for TCP/IP. You had to use an external Winsock program to do all your dialling and suchlike. Trumpet Winsock was the most prevalent I believe. It was shareware, but I've never met anyone who admits to having paid for it.
3.11 was basically 3.1 but with a File Manager that supported browsing NetBIOS networks. Still no TCP/IP.
In fact, as far as I can tell even up to Windows 2000 we don't have true TCP/IP support in the kernel.. it's still done with a (tightly integrated) Winsock driver.. correct me if I'm wrong!
When I first got onto the 'net at home (ie not using the Uni's PC's) I was dual-booting Windows 3.1 and OS/2 Warp 3. It was such a shame that my modem wouldn't play with OS/2, because I much preferred it to Windows... and it even ran all my Windows apps better than Windows itself.
Ahhhh OS/2... Rexx was just so great to have available in the shell rather than that dreadful DOS excuse for a scripting language that they're still using today with very few improvements.
Of course it wasn't too long after that that I stumbled across the Slackware website and ordered my first copy of Linux...
Nobber:
I never used Windows at all until 1995, and only then because my university decided to put Windows 3.1 on the PCs in the computer lab (alongside Debian). Since then I've tracked down most of the old versions of Windows and DOS (and OS/2) just for curiosity's sake.
Ever run DOS 1.00? With no support for directory structures or hard disks (or even floppy disks bigger than 360K), it wasn't particularly useful. What made it really interesting, though, was that it came with a game co-written in BASIC by none other than...Bill Gates himself!
And before you ask, yes, the game was crap.
Calum:
no support for directories? or disks over 360k?
hmmm. would you pay money for that?
some bastard bought MY copy of windows 3.1. :mad: so now i will have to hunt down a copy of it myself, some way, because my curiosity has been piqued...
I tried to download a copy as a .zip file but it was corrupt. I have no idea how i would install it from a .zip anyway since it's supposed to be multiple floppy images. Plus, i want to install it over FreeDOS. Back to the old drawing board i suppose!
Nobber:
No need for that. Just bung us a blank CD, no questions asked.
You ain't seen me, right?
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
no support for directories? or disks over 360k?
hmmm. would you pay money for that?
some bastard bought MY copy of windows 3.1. :mad: so now i will have to hunt down a copy of it myself, some way, because my curiosity has been piqued...
I tried to download a copy as a .zip file but it was corrupt. I have no idea how i would install it from a .zip anyway since it's supposed to be multiple floppy images. Plus, i want to install it over FreeDOS. Back to the old drawing board i suppose!
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I could put the floppies in 8 .zip files (you would have to unzip them each to a disk) on the internet for you to download. Its windows 3.11 for workgroups or windows 3.00 for Logitech (i have both)
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