New super-efficient MS Windows!

[Holley]

As Windows XP users will already be aware, they're using Windows version 5.1.  In huge technology leap Microsoft are now shipping an all-new Windows version thats fast, efficient, and fits on 5 double density disks - it's Windows version two-hundred and eighty six!

I've already got my copy, and it positively flies along on a 3GHz Pentium 4 ...



:lol:

[Holley]

Well, theres 5 disks, the one pictured, two 'Utils' one 'Fonts' and one 'Apps and Write' - they all say 'Presentation Manager' on 'em.  I don't have a 286 to try it on ...

You should be able to use a manual Dos install of Win95 OSR2 (using the files from the 'Commands' directory) to use partitions over 2Gb, and Windows 3.11 should work ok on that (in theory).  The Win95 version of Emm386 should be able to handle large amounts of memory.

[Holley]

One thing to point out - UAE won't run on Windows 3!  At that point the top Win95 driver enabled hardware, with a minimal install (20Mb is doable if you really strip it down), would fly and run UAE.

Nothing to stop you using a top new processor & MB, and just using older sound, video and network cards, make UAE the shell, and it's as close as you could get to a PC behaving like an Amiga ... have they done the Catweasel support for UAE yet?

[Holley]

If it was that slow there was a reason it was in that dumpster ;-) Windows 3 should work (as much as it ever will) at 25MHz.

[Holley]

Thought Windows 3 ran on 286 bridgeboards?  It'll certainly run under PCx ... soooo slowly ... of course I can't think of a good reason to do that nowadays.  Was there a version of PCx for PPC?  It'd certainly be handy on an A1 if it could cope with Win95.

I wonder what happenned to the complete Siamese systems that got sold, that was the ultimate bridgeboard ... shame it worked back to front, lol.