4 Dec
2018
4 Dec
'18
10:26 a.m.
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 02:00, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro at linux-mips.org> wrote:
Be assured there were enough IBM PC clones running
DOS around from 1989
onwards for this stuff to matter,
OK, fair enough. Thanks for the info!
and hardly anyone switched to MS Windows
before version 95 (running Windows 3.0 with the ubiquitous HGC-compatible
graphics adapters was sort of fun anyway, and I am not sure if Windows 3.1
even supported it; maybe with extra drivers).
It did. Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lOGPQQlxT8
Screenshot:
http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2016/12/windows-30-multimedia-edition-e…
The difficult bit was Windows 3.0 on an 8088/8086 with VGA, I believe.
The VGA driver contained 80286 instructions because MS didn't imagine
anyone would want Win3 on such old PCs.
(This again shows that MS didn't believe Win3 would be such a big hit,
giving the lie to all the pro-OS/2 anti-MS conspiracy theories...
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/06/01/windows-3-0/
)
To run Win3 on an 8086 in VGA mode, you had to replace the CPU with an
NEC V20 or V30, as I heard it and faintly recall...
The driver did later get patched to work:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?35593-Windows-3-0-VGA-color-drive…
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