> To be honest, if you REALLY want graphics in
> ELKS, you might want to consider a model like pre-Windows/386 had.
Actually the change to overlapping windows came with Windows 2.0
> In
> this world, windows did not overlap, the screen was divided up equally
> between non-minimized applications (or was there even a minimize option? -
> I can't remember).
Yes, there was a minimize option.
> Windows 1.x was also black-and-white, I believe. No scalable fonts, etc,
> etc.
Actually, it was up to 16 colors. (I was running it at 800x600x16 on an
SVGA card at one point.) There weren't scalable bitmap fonts, but many
apps supported vector fonts to get around that.
One thing that disappeared in Windows 2.X that most people forget about...
Windows 1.X supported multitasking of well behaved DOS apps in a window
on an 8086. The problem, of course, was that idiots tried to run Lotus in
a window. So in Windows 2.X Microsoft took that option away from those of
us that weren't idiots. That's around when I gave up on Microsoft.
Windows 1.04 ran better on a 8 MHz V30 than Windows 3.0 did on a 25 MHz 386.
Eric
