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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and VP/ix ??????
Message-ID: <18950011@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 90 22:17:33 GMT
References: <90.220.01:05:18@ipkima.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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> Microsoft Systems Journal July 1990 states that "There's now one version of
> Windows; Windows/286 and Windows/386 have been merged so the same version
> works
> on all machines. (As in the past, Windows quietly supports 8088/8086 machines,
> but runs well only on the fastest of them.)
> 
Let's get this cleared up. My father happened to have an old Turbo XT
(10 MHz) with 20 MB hard disk and CGA. Just for kick, I installed and
tested Windows 3.0 on that machine. And as far as I can tell, Windows 3.0
DOES WORK in the old XT with an almost decent performance ! Of course
I didn't expect it to do what a 386 machine can do. But I can run the
accessories (never tested any real program, not enough disk space to
install any  :-)). Fire up a full screen DOS window. I can only use
a 320 x 200 bitmap as the wall paper. I even managed to play Solitaire
reasonably.

The 10 MHz 8088 is inherently slow. I'm amazed that Windows 3.0 didn't
slow it down much further  :-).


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