Well, cause I want to hear something like the starting tones at least. The default driver-less resolution of Win3.1 is an intolerable 640x480 I consider that cheating for obvious reasons! Everything must be installed natively.
Due to the age of the OS, it is impossible to get everything up and running due to lack of drivers but I want certain features at the minimum. I wanted to set certain reasonable goals before undertaking this project. This shows how much premium people place on disk space then, up to the hundreds of kilobytes. Notice also how Microsoft defines the disk space requirements to one decimal place. 6.2 MiB disk space (14.5 MiB recommended)Īny modern machine can easily meet this requirements, or can they? We shall see.EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, 8514/A, or Hercules video card or 100% compatible card, and monitor.5.25-inch (high density) or 3.5-inch floppy drive.To derive a complete list, I have combined information from this source and this source. To put things in perspective lets take a look at what the system requirements. Also, due to its low hardware requirements, Microsoft actually sold licences to embedded systems manufacturers till 2008! WFW3.11 System Requirements The reason this fact came to light is because that machine crashed which took down the airport services. The 16-bit nature ups the challenge of installing things.įor a bit of trivial, even as late as recent as 2015, a French airport was also using a Win3.1 machine. Moving from Win3.11 to its successor Windows 95 marks the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit computing. It comes with Workgroup networking features amongst other improvements. Windows For Workgroups 3.11 is something like the corporate version of Win3.1. In fact, I have one one step further with the networking capability as I did not use the Internet till I got my second computer which ran on Windows 98 Second Edition. Going through this project also made me relive part of my childhood. I started using computers when I was 5 and Win3.1 and DOS 6.22 used to be my staple computing experience then. Win3.1 is also actually part of my childhood. Someone then challenged me to do the same for Win3.1 so this blog post is the result!
I had a previous project to install Windows XP on a modern machine.
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