29 Jan
1998
29 Jan
'98
5:49 p.m.
Marvin wrote:
Les Berry wrote:
Yeah, something like that. You can run Word or you can print. Don't
try to print from Word. It will get ugly.
Windows 3.0 will _not_ work on anything less than a 286. Or in my
experience on a 286 with an 8-bit bus (Tandy TL/2). Unless there's
a trick I missed. (Yes, I had the CGA drivers at hand).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
I might be mistaken, but I somehow recall that
someone said that
it was possible to run windows 3.0 on an XT???
A buddy of mine gave me an unopened box of v3.0 but the back
says it requires a 286.
It has been a long time since I worked with wIN 3.0 but as I recall, Win 3.0
was capable of running in real, standard, and enhanced mode. There was
quite a bit of discussion when it first appeared about the compatibility
with XT computers, hence the real mode operation. You can still find out
some interesting information about starting Windows buy typing "win /?" at
the command prompt. Real mode compatibility was removed for version 3.1.
Interesting sidelight, if you were running a machine capable of using
Windows in enhanced mode, the speed of the machine sometimes picked up if it
was started in Standard mode. As I recall, it was because some of the
enhanced features such as "multitasking" were disabled in standard mode.