18 Nov
2025
18 Nov
'25
5:45 p.m.
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.