30 Sep
1998
30 Sep
'98
4 p.m.
On 30 Sep 98 at 9:19, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, there was no Windows
1.00. As I recall, we
released 1.03 as the first version.
1.03 was available only on 360K 5 1/4" and had no VGA support. 1.04 was the
same as 1.03 except it was available only on 720K 3 1/2" and supported the
PS/2 _exclusively_.
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail [mailto:dastar@ncal.verio.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:16 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Windows 1.0?
Someone posted recently that they have the originals (or copies) of
Windows 1.0? Could you please get in touch with me?
Sam Alternate e-mail:
Sorry Kai, I usually tend to take your MS statements as gospel but in this
case I've just been looking at the flash page and desktop of Windows 1.01
copyrighted 1984 and the files are dated 11-15-85. Unless this was a pirated
version smuggled out of MS or an elaborate put-on it must be the first
issue. It has a somewhat-Norton Commander style desktop but has most of
the utilities of the later version - notepad, write, calendar ,etc. and a
pif-editor and win.ini. It comes on 5 360k disks with a set-up program that
builds a small Win.com and an much larger overlay binarie. As you mention it
doesn't support VGA and the readme file has a lot of references to problems
with AboveBoard (the Intel mem-expansion card). I've had it for a short while
and just now installed it on an 8580 PS2 running DRDOS. While I can get the
desktop the utilities hang with the familiar hourglass.
I just tried it on my 5150 which has an Inboard card and uses the A20
handler but only 1meg memory and also heavily configured and with Dos 5. It
crashed leaving me at the prompt. Using my favorite shell CMFiler got me to
a blank screen before crashing . Likely memory related.
I'm going to try it on one of my 286s' using an earlier dos and with one of
1.01's memory handlers emm.at or emm.xt (dated 7-30-85) in autoexec. I have
of course no manual.
I do run on, sorry.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com