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From: ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Multiple Windows 2.x run-times on the same system
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.125330.7715@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 12:53:30 GMT
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From article <112711@linus.mitre.org>, by jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris):
> Microsoft is extending the $50 upgrade offer to *any* Windows users,
> including owners of only the run-time version.  For that amount of money,
> it's probably not worth the effort to try to figure out the interactions
> between the run-time files.  Call uSoft at 1-800-426-9400.
> 
> I'm assuming that you don't have any reason *not* to run Windows 3.  If
> you can't (8088 chip, no disk space available, Intel inboard/386, etc.)
> they you should still try to find an old copy of Windows/286.  I would
> be *very* worried about the reliability of merging the run-time stuff...

You can run Windows 3.0 on an 8088, but you only get Real Mode, no
standard or enchanced mode.  (Source ... page 502 of the Microsoft
Windows 3.0 User's Guide.)

Drew Derbyshire

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