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Everyone I knew would fallback to DOS before throwing the big red power switch else risk suffering a day of work or worse being corrupt tomorrow morning.
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
Everyone I knew would fallback to DOS before throwing the big red power switch else risk suffering a day of work or worse being corrupt tomorrow morning.
- andix 2y agoEdit: the windows 3.1 manual "recommends" exiting windows before turning off the PC. It doesn't say it's "required". And with 386 mode, windows actually did do disk IO, including caching. Probably a lot of people did exit windows 3.x before powering off the computer. I actually don't think it was required. Windows 3.x was just a shell on top of DOS and didn't do any IO caching. Saving files or closing all applications should've been safe enough.