Yeah our windows manager sad that Win XP was the version that had everything converted to run on 32 bit. Prior to XP, there were some utilities and drainage vers that were still 16 bit.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 18, 2025, at 17:45, Van Snyder via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >>> 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. > >>
