7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
3:55 a.m.
On 7 September 2012 08:38, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Dave Flowers
<dflowers at gmail.com> wrote:
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.)
MS-DOS 5 is really inefficient on anything less than a 386, too - 3.3
or 3.31 gives more free conventional memory.
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I don't know if anyone is still interested in
this. I have a Kaypro Micro1
with monitor and keyboard. It has a 10 MB hard drive and runs on MS DOS 5.0
and Windows 3.1. It has 2 3.5" floppy drives. I've never seen another one
anyplace.
Interesting - that was an 8086 machine IIRC. Or am I forgetting that
an XT could run Win 3.1?