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  • Windows 3.1 rebooted: Microsoft's DOS destroyer turns 20

    04/06/2012 10:30:40 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 76 replies
    The Register ^ | 6 April 2012 | Tim Anderson
    Yes it crashed a lot. It crashed less than its predecessor though, and kept Microsoft on the path to desktop domination. This was Windows 3.1, released on 6 April 1992, nearly two years after Windows 3.0 was pushed out in May 1990. Minimum system requirements are MS-DOS 3.1 or later, 2MB RAM, and a hard drive with 6MB free. This means a modern PC with, say, 2GB of RAM exceeds the minimum requirements by around 1,000 times. The improvements in Windows 3.1 were incremental rather than dramatic, though Microsoft claimed there were altogether over 1,000 changes. The user interface is...