Windows 1.x platforms... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 May 1998

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  Windows 1.x-2.x were Intel and 100% compatible only
(including AMD 286 since
 it was manufactured under license by Intel), and ran without problems on the
 NEC V20 (8088 clone).  Bear in mind that there wasn't really any secondary
 CPU market at that time. 
Back in the Windows 1 timeframe, IBM had not yet taken over the universe.
Some non-clones (such as the DEC Rainbow) ran Windows; basically DEC
wrote or contracted for the device drivers necessary to make it work.
I don't recall whether Windows 2.x ran on the 'bow; I didn't have access
to one during that timeframe.

Hotze wrote:
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 OK... I know that Windows 1.x/2.x was horibbly unsuccessful... but I
 remember reading about some platforms that Windows was ported to that seemed
...
  pretty strange... (IE non-x86).
     Anyone??? 
This is probably a dim memory of the Rainbow port. The Rainbow had both an
8088 and a Z80 (when running MS-DOS, the Z80 was used only for floppy and
(IIRC) keyboard I/O).

Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu