Oh, god, I love tacos.

[dolari]

After much gnashing of teeth, I got Windows 2 to run. It took a download of Tandy DOS 3.2 which worked MUCH better than my MS DOS 3.2


I gotta say, having mouse support is NICE (Win 1 has it, but not PS/2 style mouse support), and the colors don't scream at me anymore...although now it feels so bland. And God Bless overlapping windows.

I won't post Win 3. Most of us have seen it at one time, and those that have never seen it can get a good idea at http://www.dolari.net on my front page. :)

Bed now. Long life-relevant post coming soon.

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I was posting this to your posting of Windows 1, but FireFox had been crashed by an unstable extension and I discovered that Konqueror wasn't wanting to take responsibility for my clicking on preview or send, wanting to outsource the resulting page to Mozilla, which was removed the last time I updated FireFox. If I say something confusing here, blame bad editing.

Bill Gates felt the same way about overlapping windows, which is why it's the main interface change with Windows 2/286/386. I stand corrected: there's more difference in the screenshots than I noticed at the time I was comparing them.p Admittedly, I didn't have a side to side visual comparison.

I actually installed 1, 2, then 3.0 in order on my 8 MHz XT (only to have it die on me a week later) circa 1994. One thing to note is that none of 1.0's fonts were compatible with 2.0, although there was a conversion utility included (It screamed this during the upgrade). I Wonder if there's a utility needed to run the 2.0 fonts on later version of Windows. Possibly not, as there's a plotter font from 1990 that I've had on every system I've had since 3.1 when I got back from the Air Force (I never forked out for Windows on my own machine, I only used it on one machine in the Demand Processing section that belonged to the Air Force at Zweibruecken -- not at all at Bitburg where the machines all needed to be running a pure DOS based environment at all times).

Unfortunately, I've yet to find out how to get it to run under KDE, which means I may have come to the end of the road for using it (it IS on this machine somewhere, though -- it's just that it may as well be the old sample text file with the inane to do list from Windows 1 and 2 (and maybe 3.0) at the moment)...


Good luck^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCongradulations on getting Windows 2 to run. Unlike 1 that was actually used in a few things, although I did see one application that was compatible with 1.0.something through 3.0 and ran it under 3.1 -- admittedly not a very impressive application and I don't remember the name.


SL

LOL @ MICROSOFT

[directorsg.livejournal.com]

I'll take Macintosh System 6 (What Macs were running in 1989) over the "MS-DOS Executive" any day:

XD

[michiru-umi.livejournal.com]

I just have to know. What do tacos and windows have in common?

Re: LOL @ MICROSOFT

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

At Swan, we had several laptops with test operating systems on it. One was for Windows 95, which had only been out a year or two. It had a photoshopped label on it: "Macintosh Windows 86."

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I was half tempted to load up Zork and play it in a window. :D