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To: upchuck

3.11 was better....


2 posted on 04/06/2022 3:19:54 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

By a factor of about 10. I ran 3.11 on top of DR-DOS (with the best cache on the planet at the time — built-in even!) and thought I was in heaven. Come to think of it, I probably was.


12 posted on 04/06/2022 3:36:30 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Paladin2

I beta tested 3.0

Buggy as crap. 3.1 was an amazing improvement


15 posted on 04/06/2022 3:39:11 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Paladin2

Yeah it had networking. Good ole NETBEUI!


29 posted on 04/06/2022 4:32:01 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Paladin2

“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.


37 posted on 04/06/2022 5:42:18 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (In Christ All Things are Possible)
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To: Paladin2
> 3.11 was better....

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.

42 posted on 04/06/2022 6:10:26 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Paladin2
3.11 was better....

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.

46 posted on 04/06/2022 6:22:34 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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