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3:36 pm 08/03/2011
griffin
I knew it. I just checked, windows 1,2 &3 all predate dos 5. That sounded fishy to me.
I think the guy is a bit of a spa, he blathers on about compatibility and blah blah over 23 years of software development. However, the fastest machine available at the time Windows 1 was released would have been a 80286. Yeah, I had one. Later I upgraded it to 768 kb of system Ram, overclocked it to 12Mhz and installed a hard drive with a ten megabyte capacity. No way anything that big could ever get filled. Seriously. So my souped-up 80286 baddass system was souped-up and badass, but was not capable of running Windows 3.1. So I think I've spotted an upgrade compatibility breakpoint.
3:55 pm 08/03/2011
backroom
Quote by griffin:
I knew it. I just checked, windows 1,2 &3 all predate dos 5. That sounded fishy to me.
May have predated DOS 5 but not DOS.
He could have gone thru the motions of installing DOS 1 and all it's successive updated versions, but the test was Windows upgrade compatability.
All versions of Windows previous to W95 required a DOS backbone to be preinstalled. Windows was a graphical extension of DOS that added multitasking.
Windows 95 still had a DOS requirement, but it was installed at the same time.
4:01 pm 08/03/2011
griffin
He says he installed Dos 5 because early versions of Windows required it. No, they didn't.
4:26 pm 08/03/2011
backroom
Are you saying DOS is not a pre-requirement to install Windows 1.0 - 3.11?
4:28 pm 08/03/2011
griffin
Quote by backroom:
Are you saying DOS is not a pre-requirement to install Windows 1.0 - 3.11?
Quote by griffin:
He says he installed Dos 5 because early versions of Windows required it.
Not playing.
4:48 pm 08/03/2011
backroom
Quote by griffin:
So my souped-up 80286 baddass system was souped-up and badass, but was not capable of running Windows 3.1
If you had only added 128kb more.
6:40 pm 08/03/2011
Flee
To help further your debate(that griffin isnt playing)
Total version history of Windows and DOS
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=30
Windows 1.0 was released shortly after DOS 3.1
Quote by griffin:
He says he installed Dos 5 because early versions of Windows required it. No, they didn't.
Spot on. DOS 5 was not used until Microsoft Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions which is the second release of 3.0
7:01 pm 08/03/2011
backroom
If you want to open PDF's are you going to install Reader X or Acrobat Reader 6.0?
I think it is pretty clear he states Windows required DOS as a backbone.
He just happened to have 5.0
If he would have just asked me I could have set him up w/ DOS 6. The only versions I do not have are 1 & 2.
Perhaps he had the same difficulty I do in finding 20 year old software.
8:17 pm 09/03/2011
griffin
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Yeah Macs don't come with rear view mirrors. Steve Jobs doesn't believe in 'em. 
8:24 pm 09/03/2011
Flee
Quote by vonryner:
I Chose Apple in 1980 and never looked back
i can only imagine the money you have spent over the years.
12:39 am 10/03/2011
backroom
Quote by vonryner:
I Chose Apple in 1980 and never looked back
I'm sorry.
There is nothing we can do to help you.