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11-05-2008, 06:05 AM
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Dracolisk
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End of an Era (windows)
from BBC
Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licenses for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US. The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s, were the first of Microsoft's graphical user interfaces to win huge worldwide success. As an embedded system, it was used to power such things as cash tills in large stores and ticketing systems. One of its more glamorous uses as an embedded operating system is to power the in-flight entertainment systems on some Virgin and Qantas long-haul jets.
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11-05-2008, 06:07 AM
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Dracolisk
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
So any body here still have an old copy of this lying around?
 I remember using windows 3.1 for the first time and never going back to my sinclair spectrum computer 
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11-05-2008, 06:11 AM
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Jack Burton
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
I think I actually may have had them until last week. My wife finally threw away all my floppies!
I was gonna put them on eBay, 'cos I here some people still need them.
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11-05-2008, 06:49 AM
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Jack Burton
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
Back home in Hungary...we have a computer that has Windows 3.11 currently installed on it...
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11-05-2008, 07:02 AM
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Jack Burton
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
Looking back, that thing was butt ugly. It crashed if you looked at it the wrong way.
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11-05-2008, 07:11 AM
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40th Level Warrior
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
Ah, but could it boot quickly.... I had the chance several years ago to boot a Win 3.11 machine... booted in something like five seconds.
I was amazed 
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11-05-2008, 08:41 AM
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Mephistopheles
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
My copy of DOS 6.22 I run with the WIN 3.11 GUI.
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11-05-2008, 01:58 PM
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40th Level Warrior
Join Date: March 24, 2002
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
I think one of my old laptop is still using win3.1. I wonder if the laptop is still functional.
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11-05-2008, 10:20 PM
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Jack Burton
Join Date: August 24, 2002
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
RIP 3.1, you were much loved (and hated)
You will always have a special place in my heart.... If only for the fact that I could play Chips challenge and ski free on you 
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11-06-2008, 03:32 AM
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Ironworks Webmaster
Join Date: January 4, 2001
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Re: End of an Era (windows)
Yep, I still have all my original DOS 5.5 and 6.xx disks, and the Windows for Workgroups
(And WWIV BBS, Pkunzip, ARJ...)I can still remember my autoexec.bat and config.sys lines by heart... I always turned on doskey... loved it. And used a shareware program called 'LIST'. back before Windows, LIST was an ANSI graphics navbar.. easy to change dirs and move files..tag files and copy/move masses.. was killer. used it up until XP.
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