On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 02:00, Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> Be assured there were enough IBM PC clones running DOS around from 1989 > onwards for this stuff to matter, OK, fair enough. Thanks for the info! > and hardly anyone switched to MS Windows > before version 95 (running Windows 3.0 with the ubiquitous HGC-compatible > graphics adapters was sort of fun anyway, and I am not sure if Windows 3.1 > even supported it; maybe with extra drivers). It did. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lOGPQQlxT8 Screenshot: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2016/12/windows-30-multimedia-edition-early.html The difficult bit was Windows 3.0 on an 8088/8086 with VGA, I believe. The VGA driver contained 80286 instructions because MS didn't imagine anyone would want Win3 on such old PCs. (This again shows that MS didn't believe Win3 would be such a big hit, giving the lie to all the pro-OS/2 anti-MS conspiracy theories... https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/06/01/windows-3-0/ ) To run Win3 on an 8086 in VGA mode, you had to replace the CPU with an NEC V20 or V30, as I heard it and faintly recall... The driver did later get patched to work: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?35593-Windows-3-0-VGA-color-driver-for-8088-XT -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053