Stephen wrote:

> I can't remember when I got it but it ran on a PC under MS DOS. IFAICR
> it looked like an early version of windows explorer. It was good for
> Alt + Tab-ing when my boss came in :)

Well, I can say with authority that Windows 3.11 was simply an 
application program that runs under MS-DOS. If you write Windows, you go 
back to DOS. When you start the PC, it boots DOS first, and then runs 
Windows. And Windows 3.11 was litle more than a GUI with window movement 
capabilities and icon management. [Why would you want several windows in 
an OS that doesn't support multitasking?]

IIRC, Win95 and Win98 (and WinME?) are slightly thicker layers over the 
top of MS-DOS, and it was WinNT that finally replaced DOS with a *real* 
OS with actual *features* such as security, multitasking, hardware 
abstraction, etc.

Ooo, ooo, remember TSRs? Remember spending hours editing C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT 
and C:\CONFIG.SYS to try all permutations of driver loading order 
looking for one that actually functioned?

Somewhere on the Internet, there's an MP3 of "Microsoft Jinglebells" 
where a guy laments that "I've sat here installing Word since breakfast 
yesterday". Certainly it used to really *be* like that!

I guess a few things _have_ improved slightly...

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