> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 7:18 am, Murray McCullough via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > According to history Windows 1 was introduced to the world on Nov. > > 20, > > 1985, 40 years ago, minus 2 days. Prior to this Windows was first > > announced > > in 1983(vaporware) but…An even earlier development was Interface > > Manager. > > What we have now is much more and ‘better’ but for classic > > computing I > > still prefer WIN 3.1. > > > > Happy computing. > > > > Murray
I switched directly from Dos 3.20 to OS/2. It ran Windoze 3.11 programs faster than Windoze would run them because it had a 32-bit graphics engine, while back then (I was told) the Windoze engine was still 16- bit code. >
