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i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, because at the BBC all our horrible Apricot IBM-compatibles (hollow laugh regarding compatibility) came with it

i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, because at the BBC all our horrible Apricot IBM-compatibles (hollow laugh regarding compatibility) came with it installed. what we used it for was playing the othello game, and that alone. basically, win3 was the first useable version of windows, and the one that got me into windows programming. and say what you like about MS, they do tend to stick with things once they get started,

jasode 3y ago
>i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, Some users were exposed to the early versions of Windows 1.0 and 2.0 because they were "bundled as runtimes" for some applications. Aldus Pagemaker was an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker#:~:text=Aldus%20Pagemaker%202.0%20was%20released,the%20application%20from%20MS%2DDOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker#:~:text=Aldus%.... So consumers weren't necessarily going out of their way to buy Windows 1.0 as a separate item and then later installing apps on it. This was also similar to how a competing GUI like Digital Research GEM was distributed where people didn't make it a deliberate purchase. Instead, Ventura Publisher included it as a runtime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura#:~:text=It%20ran%20under%20an%20included%20run%2Dtime%20copy%20of%20Digital%20Research%27s%20GEM.%5B1%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura#:~:text=It%20ran...
- NikkiA 3y ago
  Timeworks was the one that I was forced to use GEM for, I loved GEM on ST, but the PC version was awful after the lawsuit.
fortran77 3y ago
Yes. The first versionI used Windows 1.03 It wasn't until Windows 3 that I used Windows most of the time.
rwmj 3y ago
Yup, used Windows 1.0. At the time the technology seemed space age to me. You could run two COMMAND.COM windows side by side! (Just don't try running any DOS applications, that didn't work so well). I also remember Windows 2.0 being a major breakthrough because it allowed overlapping windows!
- Narishma 3y ago
  > Just don't try running any DOS applications, that didn't work so well It worked OK if they were small applications and didn't access hardware directly.
  - rwmj 3y ago
    I think at the time I was too young to comprehend the difference between "well behaved" DOS programs that stuck to int 21h and the BIOS, and the majority that hammered on the PC hardware directly. The former would have worked.

jasode 3y ago

>i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, Some users were exposed to the early versions of Windows 1.0 and 2.0 because they were "bundled as runtimes" for some applications. Aldus Pagemaker was an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker#:~:text=Aldus%20Pagemaker%202.0%20was%20released,the%20application%20from%20MS%2DDOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker#:~:text=Aldus%.... So consumers weren't necessarily going out of their way to buy Windows 1.0 as a separate item and then later installing apps on it. This was also similar to how a competing GUI like Digital Research GEM was distributed where people didn't make it a deliberate purchase. Instead, Ventura Publisher included it as a runtime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura#:~:text=It%20ran%20under%20an%20included%20run%2Dtime%20copy%20of%20Digital%20Research%27s%20GEM.%5B1%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura#:~:text=It%20ran...

NikkiA 3y ago
Timeworks was the one that I was forced to use GEM for, I loved GEM on ST, but the PC version was awful after the lawsuit.

fortran77 3y ago

Yes. The first versionI used Windows 1.03 It wasn't until Windows 3 that I used Windows most of the time.

rwmj 3y ago

Yup, used Windows 1.0. At the time the technology seemed space age to me. You could run two COMMAND.COM windows side by side! (Just don't try running any DOS applications, that didn't work so well). I also remember Windows 2.0 being a major breakthrough because it allowed overlapping windows!

Narishma 3y ago
> Just don't try running any DOS applications, that didn't work so well It worked OK if they were small applications and didn't access hardware directly.
- rwmj 3y ago
  I think at the time I was too young to comprehend the difference between "well behaved" DOS programs that stuck to int 21h and the BIOS, and the majority that hammered on the PC hardware directly. The former would have worked.