Windows 3.1 - Do you think?

[InFiNiTy]

It come in a 64 Bit Version ?
is it? :wave:
Or ? :****:

:OMG:

[UKGouki]

lmao windows 3.1 was 8bit you would have to run it in dos promt mode nowadays it would use less than 120kb of ram and total install size i think is 3mb

[PMM]

3.1 is very quick even run within windows... used to be instantaneous bootup on a amd xp/barton chip lol

I don't know if this thread started out as a typo but win 3.1 was born in the age of dinosaurs back in the early 90s ... 64bit computers had not even been dreamt of in engineers dreams back then.

I still have a copy for laughs :) pretty sure it was a 16bit os that later developed 32bit stack before being released as win 3.11 windows for workgroups.

I used to have a trimmed down version as a recovery OS... win 3.1 + filemanager all on 1 * 1.44Mb floppy disk using various compression techniques.

the good ol days :D

[InFiNiTy]

3.1 is very quick even run within windows... used to be instantaneous bootup on a amd xp/barton chip lol

I don't know if this thread started out as a typo but win 3.1 was born in the age of dinosaurs back in the early 90s ... 64bit computers had not even been dreamt of in engineers dreams back then.

I still have a copy for laughs :) pretty sure it was a 16bit os that later developed 32bit stack before being released as win 3.11 windows for workgroups.

I used to have a trimmed down version as a recovery OS... win 3.1 + filemanager all on 1 * 1.44Mb floppy disk using various compression techniques.

the good ol days :D
lol I wann dowload one :D

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[Ammok]

3.11 was ace, no viruses to speak of either and navigator was king.

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[InFiNiTy]

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[ChrisFromGlasgow]

I have a brand new and sealed copy of Windows 3.1 gathering dust in the loft. It's shrink wrapped, has a big thick manual with the single floppy disk sitting in front of it. Also came with a COA leaflet on it :D It'll be worth billions in the future! Either that or what it's worth now... £0.01 :D I'll take my chances.

And don't knock it either... 3.1 paved the way for Windows 7! roflol

[Simon1987]

I have a brand new and sealed copy of Windows 3.1 gathering dust in the loft. It's shrink wrapped, has a big thick manual with the single floppy disk sitting in front of it. Also came with a COA leaflet on it :D It'll be worth billions in the future! Either that or what it's worth now... £0.01 :D I'll take my chances.

And don't knock it either... 3.1 paved the way for Windows 7! roflol

I have stacks of windows either in there boxes or sealed oem copies. I highly doubt they will ever be worth anything.

[Shade]

what a nice thread

[hegemon]

After Windows 3.11 is was all downhill :D

In work I still have DOS systems running on an IBM Type 3 Token Ring network, the network cards are ISA bus and the Token Ring hubs linked by fibre are made my Pilkington (yes, the glass maker) :trophy:

[jonbanjo]

pretty sure it was a 16bit os that later developed 32bit stack before being released as win 3.11 windows for workgroups.

I think win 3.11 was 16 bit. As far as I can remember a Win32 extension was made available to install later.

[cjmUK]

3.11 was ace, no viruses to speak of either and navigator was king.

*Fewer* viruses because most people didn't have internet access. The OS was extremely vulnerable to viruses, but it was a lot more difficult for viruses to propagate.

There were plenty of viruses in existence around then, and plenty were malicious, but quite a few were harmless and/or funny - a lot were just technical experiments and were done for bragging rights. Post-internets, there is money to be made by writing viruses, but not so much in those days.


...pretty sure it was a 16bit os that later developed 32bit stack before being released as win 3.11 windows for workgroups.

Bang on the money! 16-bit but later with 32-bit extensions to allow interoperability with Windows NT.

There was actually a Windows 3.12 version as well. v3.11 came with Doublespace, which allowed you to compress your hard drive if hard drive space was at a premium (which it was for a penniless student like me). But unfortunately MS didn't actually have the rights to ship Doublespace, so V3.12 was released containing DriveSpace as a replacement. (I think there were other subtle changes as well).

It's nice looking back through rose-tinted glasses, but if we had to use Win 3.x these days, it would seem positively medieval!

[Vic]

I don't know if this thread started out as a typo but win 3.1 was born in the age of dinosaurs back in the early 90s ... 64bit computers had not even been dreamt of in engineers dreams back then.

Oh yes they had...

64-bit was *seriously* expensive, though - so most of us had to make do with arrays of parallel 32-bit processors.

Vic.