1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
2:43 p.m.
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
My gosh, Windows was around ages ago in a real-mode
version to compete with
IBM Topview. What I can't remember is if Windows 1.0 would run on an 8088
or if it required a 286.
3.10 was the first Windoze to require more than an 8088.
3.10 even required a token amount of extended memory!
Why disqualify anything that can run Windows, but
include things that will run Gem?
There are a FEW machines that run "non-intel" Windoze NT that are
interesting.
I cast my vote for being very flexible without rigidly
defining what's
"classic".
"I know it when I see it." --Justice Potter Stewart
It has to be flexible. Nobody can come up with a rigid definition that
doesn't have exceptions. For any rigid definition, somebody can come up
with an example of a machine excluded unreasonably, and a machine included
that shouldn't have been.