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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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Up until that time I was pretty ambivalent about the utility of a GUI.
But in 3.1 I discovered that I could have my editor, compiler, and debugger all open in separate windows and switch easily back and forth. I remember thinking yeah, this changes everything.
And then Windows for Workgroups came along and basically blew Novell out of the water, and the rest was history.
“1992 was the year I bought my first PC.”
Me too. [I still have it in working condition]
1993 was when I bought my second.
Turns out it’s tough to fix a “broken” [from screwing around with settings and s/w loads] without a way to look info up.
Yep - it was a “DOS app”.
My Amiga was light years better.
You can still do that in MS applications. Macros were my good friend before I retired.
Leisure Suit Larry arrived.
Poor Macintosh imitation.
95 became a better imitation.
“It was an “operating environment” not a true operating system”.”
Basically it was a dos program.
I remember Windows 3.1.
Yeah it had networking. Good ole NETBEUI!
Is this when the flying toasters came out?
I had a version of windows 1.0 that came packaged with Pagemaker. I used it to layout a newslatter. The screens would a some point just turn black until the new version came out.
I recollect what really made it a success was an aggregated commitment at first release from various hardware vendors to include Windows 3.1 on 100m computers in the near future (a year?).
We all know Msquish had to fight legions of bugs with every first release of almost every product. (That was less the case for Flight Simulator.)
You can still do that in MS applications. Macros were my good friend before I retired.>>>. I set up a whole new system security for a couple thousand people using a macro recording testing tool.
“ There was some kind of command scripting recording macro tool that would copy a series of actions…”
Yes there was. I still have one of several machines with XP which I use every day for a few legacy programs. Macro Magic which does exactly what you describe is on that machine. I’ve had the program since before 2000 and also use it every day for macros I created that go back years.
Same experience here. Same year. I had Aldus Pagemaker and Word Perfect. A whopping 200MB hard drive!
I really liked 98 SR 2 and Windows 3.11
Was writing Windows software in those days.
“3.11 was better....”
Indeed. Far better. The first computer I bought as a complete system and not put together myself via The Computer Shoppers Guide was the Gateway 2000 Big Kahuna. It came with DOS 3.11.
“That still exists in Windows. Look for steps recorder.”
Step Recorder does not create macros or an executable batch file. Step Recorder records the steps you take on the machine to help solve problems. Not execute commands.
The first thing I install is Classic Shell, so I never have to see the execrable Metro interface again.
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