New super-efficient MS Windows!

[Tomas]

I recall having windows 1.2 or something on my 8086 amstrad pc... Believe it or not, but it actually booted windows in a matter of seconds even on that hardware.. Paint and wordpad still looked exactly the same back then  :-D

[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.

[HopperJF]

im with u all the way on that!!

[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?

[Van_M]

I really think that putting win95 in a modern machine wouldn't be the best idea in the world. When the win95 kernel was written there was no DDR ram, the bios'es were quite primitive, the northbridges were more primitive, there was no AGP, ISA was a standard, the cpu was real CISC, etc. I'm sure (given that it even installs), it won't be the most stable machine in the universe...

--EDIT-- forgot to mention that Win95/98/Me was largely based on DOS, a 16 bit OS, and todays CPU's are 32/64 bit... that, on it's own doesn't sound good...

[Van_M]

Best thing to do if you get yourself an archaic version of windows and wanna play with it, would be to get some Virtual Machine software (that can emulate a 386 or lower) and install it there.

[Morley]

Tomas wrote:
I recall having windows 1.2 or something on my 0086 amstrad pc... Believe it or not, but it actually booted windows in a matter of seconds even on that hardware.. Paint and wordpad still looked exactly the same back then  :-D

Ahem..  I just salvaged a 486DX2-66 pc from a dumpster at work this week. That thing was awfully slow in Win3.11, just loading a document into Wordperfect took 2-3 minutes.

That reminded me why I hate Micrsoft. :-P

[Vincent]

Morley wrote:
Ahem..  I just salvaged a 486DX2-66 pc from a dumpster at work this week. That thing was awfully slow in Win3.11, just loading a document into Wordperfect took 2-3 minutes.

That reminded me why I hate Micrsoft. :-P

:lol:

[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.

[melott]

 :-D Maybe I should get a copy of this 'NEW' 2.1 version
of Windows to run on my New 286 BridgeBoard. LOL

Hell .. it might actually run on the 286 board. :-P

[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.