7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
10:24 a.m.
Message: 25
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:55:13 +0100
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
On 7 September 2012 08:38, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
You are limited to Windows 3.0 or lower on a 8088, 8086 or 80186. Windows 3.1 dropped Real
Mode support, so it needs an 80286 or better. I have run Windows 3.0 on a Poqet (8088) and
HPLX 200 (80186) using the CGA drivers.
Bob
Interesting - that was an 8086 machine IIRC. Or
am I forgetting that
an XT could run Win 3.1?
I am trying to remember if there was a magic incantation to get it to
start if you had an NEC V30 chip or something, but I am not at all
sure. I suspect that for an actual Intel 8086, Windows 3.0 was the
latest - and you still couldn't run in VGA mode. (You only got VGA if
you had an NEC V30; the VGA driver used 286 instructions.)