>I wonder why that is. There are I believe issues with the memory manager and there is a sort of protection mechanism that actually prevents running Windows 3.

>I wonder why that is. There are I believe issues with the memory manager and there is a sort of protection mechanism that actually prevents running Windows 3.1/3.11 also on newer MS DOS (aka the DOS 7.1/8.0 of Windows 98/Me, whilst the 7.0 from Windows95 should be able to run without patches), there are dedicated patches/programs for some of these (original MS) DOS versions, probably something similar is needed for freedos. EDIT: for some reasons this post ended up after retrac's one that actually provides a solution