On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 10:38:29 -0700 Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/2022 8:55 AM, Roderick Klein wrote: > All references and possible downloads for anything DOS and Windows <= > 3.11 has been removed from Microsoft's web site(s) at least 10 years > ago. By that time, pretty much all application and driver support > from 3rd parties has evaporated as well. There is a full mirror torrent of ftp.microsoft.com on archive.org before it disappeared. You'll find all the DOS, Windows 3.x and early Windows 95 stuff distributed by m$ on there, including quite a few esoteric drivers (I've seen browsing through it). The problem with DOS based Windows releases in my experience is that they are extremely crash prone because of their hackish engineering to be polite. And the more you pile up "fixes" and "add-ons" (including those provided by m$ itself), the less they will work without crashing every five minutes. To have a decent experience with any of these you're going to have to carefully select the hardware you're going to use them with, to have access to decently written drivers (which was far from always being the case). And you're going to want to avoid trying to install every fix available because those fixes were designed to be installed on an "as needed" basis and were not part of a stream of "windows updates" to be installed everywhere. Better yet, if you like the Windows 3.x shell, go with NT 3.51. If you like the Windows 95 shell, go with NT 4.0. It will save you a lot of frustration. -- GPG: C90CAB7122AC1231
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