Posted on 04/06/2022 3:18:19 PM PDT by upchuck
30 years ago—on April 6, 1992—Microsoft released Windows 3.1, which brought the company to a new level of success, kept the PC platform competitive with Macs, and set the stage for Windows PC domination. Here’s what was special about it...
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“Gateway 2000 Big Kahuna”
Was that the system with a large display?
3.11 was MUCH better.
3.1 was barely usable, horribly buggy and unstable. The best that can be said about 3.1 is that it was better in most respects than 2.x
3.11 (a.k.a. "Windows for Workgroups") introduced usable networking, albeit kinda clunky, but to be fair, everything available for PCs was clunky at that time.
I have a VMware VM of Windows 3.11 that I use to demonstrate that it can be done, but not much else.
I remember trying to add a sound card to my computer. It was a nightmare with the slots and IRQs and the configuring. It was not plug and play.
No macromagic for Linux :-( it seems.
Try Linux Mint. It is much faster than Windoze.
Oh hell yes. Then again, 3.1 was vastly better than the disastrous 3.0.
Those were the days when updates really mattered for basic functionality. Now, updates just improve the computer's ability to spy on you.
“Was that the system with a large display?”
Yes. The largest CRT monitor available. It cost me $4,200 dollars. A great deal of money at that time.
OS/2 was a better program loader - which was all that Windows 3 was.
I’ll bet DOS 6.1 would run very fast on my current computer.
The death of PC’s, the loss of Dos! Many don’t remember, you were able to switch between programs in Dos, forerunner of windows.
The system looked kool [and had some kind of a wireless mouse], but way outta my budget.
“Now, updates just improve the computer’s ability to spy on you.”
LOL, THAT does certainly seem to be the case.
Plus impose stricter DRM.
“All your hardware belong to us!”
Technically, I think it's supposed to be "All your hardware ARE belong to us"
Microsoft proved that when it wiped out my D: drive when I upgraded to 3.1. I phoned Microsoft tech support, and the tech said "Yes, we are familiar with that problem. No, we don't have a solution. Is there anything else I can do for you?"
“”All your hardware ARE belong to us””
I stand appropriately corrected.
I didn’t know it went back so far in time [though I’m not surprised].
Quattro Pro, I remember that. Didn’t care for WordPerfect though. Thought Word for DOS was much better.
Still use an orthodox file manager every day (think XTree)
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LOL Same here!
Gates presented Win98 at COMDEX in Vegas and got a blue screen of death.
we made win 98 better with this:https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
I helped test it. Started by a guy named Shane Brooks who removed the IE integration with windows 98 with an application called IEradicator. From that morphed 98lite. It used the 95 file explorer shell.
We were doing this about the time MS was being sued for being a monopoly and Gates said integration couldn’t be broken.
I ran this on a DX4-120 and it was ridiculously fast.
I loved DOS when WordPerfect and Lotus we’re excellent. When WP went to the Windows platform it lost a lot of functionality.
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