18 Nov
2025
18 Nov
'25
6:32 p.m.
Yeah our windows manager sad that Win XP was the version that had everything converted to
run on 32 bit. Prior to XP, there were some utilities and drainage vers that were still 16
bit.
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On Nov 18, 2025, at 17:45, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 7:18 am, Murray McCullough via cctalk <
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> According to history Windows 1 was introduced to the world on Nov.
> 20,
> 1985, 40 years ago, minus 2 days. Prior to this Windows was first
> announced
> in 1983(vaporware) but…An even earlier development was Interface
> Manager.
> What we have now is much more and ‘better’ but for classic
> computing I
> still prefer WIN 3.1.
>
> Happy computing.
>
> Murray
I switched directly from Dos 3.20 to OS/2. It ran Windoze 3.11 programs
faster than Windoze would run them because it had a 32-bit graphics
engine, while back then (I was told) the Windoze engine was still 16-
bit code.
>