Microsoft Closes the Window

Windows 3.x is retired after eighteen years of service. Support was maintained until 2001 and license issuing has been stopped on November 1st, following the end of the last embedded operating systems.

Windows 3.x required a 10MHz processor, 640KB of RAM, and 7MB of hard drive space. Windows Vista now requires a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 20Gb of hard disk space.

Peter

P.S. Try running Vista with less than 2GB RAM and less than a 2GHz processor and see how s-l-o-w it runs.

Think how much 2 Gig of ram would have cost 18 years ago

Think how much 2 Gig of ram would have cost 18 years ago

555, when I first started mucking about with computers RAM was 10 pounds a K. That would be about 10,485,760 pounds a Gig

Yep, processing power doubles roughly every 2 years.

Microsoft keeps going and making huge profits precisely because of this.

I did not change to vista and do not intend to change for some time. XP was a genuine improvement in reliability and functionality but visat is just window dressing. We have reached the stage now where hardware power is so far ahead of software processing requirements that we really dont need power related software updates.

I'll edit the Topic title and add 3.11 which is correct.

Cheers.

Think how much 2 Gig of ram would have cost 18 years ago

1990 1 MB RAM THB 1,400 - 1,600!

so let say 1,400 x 2000 = THB 2,800,000.00!!

HDD 40 B at that time: THB 7,500.00

Cheers.

Microsoft Closes the Window

Windows 3.x is retired after eighteen years of service.

Makes a person feel old. Wonder how many people still run Win 3.XX?

Microsoft Closes the Window

Windows 3.x is retired after eighteen years of service.

Makes a person feel old. Wonder how many people still run Win 3.XX?

I know of a guy who gets old computers going and sends them off to 3rd world countries to help kids start learning how to use computers. All of these are loaded with windows 3.11

3.11 was the best system ever, i loved it! But yes, it's now an antique...

I believe this version was called "Windows for Workgroups", because of peer-to-peer networking added over version 3.1. I remember developing an asset tracking application on it interfacing with radio frequency tags in the early 90's. The end of 16-bit computing. RIP