BBC NEWS | Technology | The end of an era - Windows 3.x

Like the fact that it still serves entertainment systems on sophisticated machines like jumbo jets

 

c:\>win

Those were the days, LOL

Thing is, windows 3.xx wasn't really a OS (for PC use, at least), it was a GUI shell running on a MSDOS 6.xx OS

 

Yea, I remember the installs: DOS 6.22 followed by Win 3.1. All on about three hundred floppies. Although not as many as Office came on.


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I still have Office & Windows 3.11 original floppy's (also on CD) here at work.

I've hung onto them for posterity.

 

Office, you always get to disk 23 or something and it's missing a file

 

yup that was always the case. I remember Microsoft Project 4.0 that came on 48 floppies and the fecking floppy number 26 always buggered up

 

Dos + Windows + Borland C++ = Very long time (close to 50 floppies)

 

I Used to get around that by installing one PC, then Laplinking the rest. I remember being onsite at Esso refinery in Southampton. We has 400 or so PC's to build, out of hours on overtime. We were allocated soemthing like 4 or 5 per night, between the 2 of us.

Well we got one built, then over 2 weeks used Laplink to build the remaining 399,a nd put them in storage.

Then, we each claimed 3 hours overtime a night, for 80 nights!