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Windows 3.11 (Large screenshots)
I'm bored, so I thought I'd post these to give anyone who used this OS a trip down memory, of for any newbies to see what we had before Windows 9x 
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Don't go asking me to get a new computer, as it's only running in Connectix Virtual PC on top of Windows XP Home Edition.
Windows 3.1 was released way back in March 1992, while Windows 3.11 (in the screenshots) was released in November 1993 and is basically the same as 3.1, except with built in network support. The interface is a clone of Windows 3.0, which was released way back in 1990.
So here goes:
you will use any excuse to post a picture of a chick eh?
pretty impressive graphic clarity for win3.1 
lol
I made it into the screenshot, yay
when i got my first computer, i was using 3.11 for a while,just when i figured out the operating system, 95 came out and i got confused, hehe
It was so young... *sniff* *sniff*
the Win 3.x interface is inferior to XP's.. I don't know why you'd want to go back, other than for nostalgia
ah that was tite. i never had 3.0, but my friends did. I remember looking at porn on those things...sniff...
seemed like those computers were faster than these newfangled things.
badass dude
i miss those days with win 3.1 and DOS
speaking of hot girls? who's that chick in your sig? she's super hot, reminds me of a girl one of my friends knows.
i feel sick, xp anyday
Ohhhhhhhh....memories of happier days when computers didn't FRIGGING WASTE ALL YOUR TIME....
mmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoooooooooooooooooooorr
rrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss
LMAo
On my first PC I had DOS 2.10
Now that's an OS!
BTW i have the installation diskettes for win 3.0 around here somewhere. It took only 5 360K's... Imagine that
Opera 3.1 
Tight shit.
Ahhh 3.11 was great. The good old days of needing to use a boot disk to play games, the 5 1/2" drive was standard, cd-roms had their own cassette trays, and wordperfect was the rage.
the memories thanks
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| Originally posted by montie badass dude i miss those days with win 3.1 and DOS speaking of hot girls? who's that chick in your sig? she's super hot, reminds me of a girl one of my friends knows. |
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| the Win 3.x interface is inferior to XP's.. I don't know why you'd want to go back, other than for nostalgia[/QUOTE[ |
haha.. tempt me of doing anythign hmphht... all the old operating architectures that microsoft has developed are horrible. Windows 2000 was produced by a entirely different development team which speaks in leaps and bounds as to why it is so much more stable. The computer in my living room hasn't been turned off/restarted in at least 3 weeks. win 3.x and win 9x could never have that kind of uptime. In short anything other than the new winnt kernel (which xp and 2000 are both based on) is shit. My first computer ran a novell shell on top of dos.. its like mid-ground between a GUI and plain old dos... kind of sucked. I used to connect to local bulletin board systems (via a 2400 baud modem) and play games. One of my favorites was this text based (there wasn't such thing as 'graphics' on this machine the pixels only had 2 values.. on or off (blue or an ugly green/grey)) space game where you navigated through sectors and blew the piss out of other real players. It was my first "online" multiplayer game haha.. there was probably 30-40 other people that played on the game frequently. The two people that ruled the universe were "darkangel" and "killermaddog" ... i always hated running into their ships cos they controlled about half the planets in the universe and there ships always had the best stuff on them (and proceeded to obliterate you)... haha... memories
just for those who don't know 2400 baud is approximately 1/20th of a 56k connection which is 1/11th of a standard dsl connection. 1/20 *1/11 = 220 times slower than my connection that i have now... wow.. computers have came a long way (i'm only seventeen btw i think i was using my first computer in like 1994)
yeh i had 3.1 on my 386 back in 93/94 or so...it was tight!
>JM<
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| Originally posted by SuperFarStucker One of my favorites was this text based (there wasn't such thing as 'graphics' on this machine the pixels only had 2 values.. on or off (blue or an ugly green/grey)) space game where you navigated through sectors and blew the piss out of other real players. It was my first "online" multiplayer game haha.. there was probably 30-40 other people that played on the game frequently. The two people that ruled the universe were "darkangel" and "killermaddog" ... i always hated running into their ships cos they controlled about half the planets in the universe and there ships always had the best stuff on them (and proceeded to obliterate you)... haha... memories just for those who don't know 2400 baud is approximately 1/20th of a 56k connection which is 1/11th of a standard dsl connection. 1/20 *1/11 = 220 times slower than my connection that i have now... wow.. computers have came a long way (i'm only seventeen btw i think i was using my first computer in like 1994) |
Aah those were the days
Yeah i made it into a screenshot too
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| Originally posted by Taz Ohhhhhhhh....memories of happier days when computers didn't FRIGGING WASTE ALL YOUR TIME.... |
A few facts and figures about Windows 3.1x.
With IE5, much of the web is browsable on Windows 3.1x and it runs surprisingly fast, although I guess that's because I'm on a modern PC, I doubt this browser would work at all on your average 3.1x 486 machine with 8 MB RAM.
After installing Netshow, you can play MP3's fine. However players are rather limited. Winamp 0.x works with Win32s but isn't very stable, playing any MP3's and running IE5 at the same time often causes either to crash into a BSOD. Winplay on the other hand is very stable playing MP3's but is a very basic MP3 player, without even >>/<< (Fast Forward/Rewind) controls.
Paint Shop Pro 3 is still quite a useful program, and runs nicely.
However, the complete lack of USB support almost makes it useless for modern hardware, therefore most IP's won't connect so connecting a Win 3.1x machine to a network or an antiquated dial up modem are the only options for browsing on Win 3.11, unless you emulate it on top of Win 2000/XP in Connectix Virtual PC which shares the connection from your host OS.
Windows NT 3.51 (Released June 95) is quite a nice, stable OS for it's time in my opinion. It has a similar interface to Win 3.1x except for new icons/toolbars and user accounts at the top of program manager. From what I've heard, it's basically the same OS as Win NT 4.0 except less developed and somewhat more stable, and therefore is able to run many modern programs with ease (Mozilla, Winamp 2.x are just some of them). When installing programs on it, I've noticed that they often identify it as Win NT 4.0.
Has anyone else ever tried/used this OS?
GREAT NOW I FEEL REALLY OLD!!!!!!! I loved windows 3.1....Hugs 75mhz Dell computer
Hrm.. my mom still uses win 3.11 on her comp.
I remember on my 286 when i had fucking QUICK MENU!! Yeah, before fucking windows! muhahahahahhaah
But then we got Windows 3.1 installed and I could play cool Windows games, yeah what what.
I actually have an old AST 486 in my closet with Windows 3.1 on it....maybe I should drag it out
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