3 ms·
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
by 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 agoI 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.