Why did fonts in Windows 1.01's Write application look so poor?
2021年7月31日 · In Windows 1.01, most fonts were monochrome bitmap fonts, and not particularly high-resolution at that. (There were CONTINUOUSSCALING ‘plotter’ fonts …
Why does Windows 1.01 crash at the splash screen?
2021年8月24日 · Anyway, it would have been pretty ironic if the Windows 1.01 version check were put in place to harm competition, as Windows 1 actually runs fine under DR DOS 6 …
What made Windows Me so crash-prone? - Retrocomputing Stack …
2019年7月14日 · Microsoft's original intention was to merge the Windows 9x and NT product lines into one core product that would be suitable for home and business users. They aimed to do …
Where can I find software that was designed for Windows 1.0?
2020年7月3日 · Searching for "Windows 2.0" and "Windows 1.0" software yields some hits for applications, including CD-ROMs of shareware collections. (The keyword search is imprecise …
Did Windows 2.x actually receive support until end of 2001?
2022年4月28日 · I stumbled on the Wikipedia page for Windows 2.x the other day and briefly scrolled through it. One thing that caught my eye was that it apparently was supported until …
Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my …
2021年4月19日 · The Windows NT 3.1 kernel is incompatible with enhanced 486 processors. Specifically, it is incompatible with 486 processors providing the CPUID instructions. Kernel …
Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than …
2020年5月24日 · Basically the same approach Windows 3.1 and 3.11 used, except that they used text mode for the DOS portion of their installers. EDIT: I stand corrected. Apparently it's a …
ms dos - How did Peter Norton's Crash Guard work?
2024年10月25日 · A common reason for loss of responsiveness in a Windows program is it stopping processing its message queue, which it does by calling …
Why are these DOS console drivers wasting precious bytes?
2022年3月27日 · While doing some research on DOS device drivers, I took a peek at the console drivers DISPLAY.SYS and ANSI.SYS that are part of the DOS 6.20 installation. Both have …
cp m - How big was WordStar 1.0? - Retrocomputing Stack …
2018年7月29日 · How big was the original CP/M version of WordStar? The oldest copy of WordStar (or Wordmaster) I could find is 1.01 (but with a date of 1980) sizing