Subj : Cool things to run on Win 3.1 running on a 286
To   : Spectre
From : apam
Date : Mon Apr 22 2024 21:18:22

  Re: Cool things to run on Win 3.1 running on a 286
  By: Spectre to kirkspragg on Mon Apr 22 2024 06:48 pm

 Sp> This isn't a helpful answer, but I never tried running windoze on a 286...

My Dad had a 286 for a long time, he had windows on it, I think windows 3.1 - I remember him not being able to install the final version of windows (3.11) and many people said the 286 couldn't run windows 3.1

 Sp> I don't think I ever saw a version that would install.  I stuck with DOS
 Sp> on 286 class systems, most of the systems I saw of a similar vintage,
 Sp> generally 386s though tended to have DOS applications being used.

Yeah, windows was nice, but when I was that age I was only really interested in games and programming, and both those things were almost always in DOS. I think we had the windows entertainment pack, but that was about it for windows games. Windows was really just a nice gui to launch dos stuff.

Programming I was doing mostly GW-Basic then on to QBasic, but I had a 386 and it also ran Visual Basic.

Andrew
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