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  • A AspDotNetDev

    I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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    A while back I installed Windows 3.11 on a minimal spec VM. It absolutely flew.

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    • A AspDotNetDev

      The file browser! Or maybe some of my old QuickBasic 4.5 programs. I can run them now, but then I'd be running them on Windows 3.11! ;P

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      Let me know I might have some ancient legacy apps I might could donate.

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      • L Lost User

        FreeCell, with Win32s :cool:

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        oooo can I get Pong?

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        • A AspDotNetDev

          I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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          Ah, Windows 3.11... the last great version of Windows. How I miss it. ::sniff::

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          • A AspDotNetDev

            I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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            I've got an old floppy case that has Win NT (some version), Win 3.11, DOS 6.22 etc in, I doubt I'll ever throw them out. I've also got Commander Keen, Crystal Caverns and Frontier around somewhere along with some newer ones on CD that ran on DOS.

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            • A AspDotNetDev

              Ah. VirtualBox it is!

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              You'll need about a 30MB virtual HD to install it on. I managed to fit it onto a 20MB vhd but it was a pain. From what I remember I also had to download a bootable DOS disk from bootdisk.com because the images you get from MSDN aren't bootable.

              Regards Nelviticus

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              • A AspDotNetDev

                I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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                I do have windows 95 ISO. But I'll love to download windows 3.11 though :)

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                • A AspDotNetDev

                  Max Santos wrote:

                  VirtualBox

                  Downloading now. Thanks for the suggestion!

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                  Praveen Kumar Katiyar
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                  :cool: From which site I can download windows 3.11 or DOS 6.22, just for the sake of oldtimers. praveen.

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                    Max Santos wrote:

                    VirtualBox

                    Downloading now. Thanks for the suggestion!

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                    :cool: From which site I can download windows 3.11 or DOS 6.22, just for the sake of oldtimers. praveen.

                    Praveen Katiyar EMail : praveenkkatiyar@gmail.com

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                    • P Praveen Kumar Katiyar

                      :cool: From which site I can download windows 3.11 or DOS 6.22, just for the sake of oldtimers. praveen.

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                      Praveen Kumar Katiyar wrote:

                      Praveen Katiyar EMail

                      You do realize putting your email in every message you post in an online forum will get you spammed, right?

                      Praveen Kumar Katiyar wrote:

                      From which site I can download windows 3.11 or DOS 6.22

                      You can download it from MSDN, but if you don't already have a subscription, believe me you don't want to pay for one just for DOS and Windows 3.11.

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                      • L Luc Pattyn

                        I bought my very first PC (a Compaq laptop) in the nineties, I was still heavily using Macs then, as they were way ahead. The little machine had Win3.11 and a 1GB disk, I'm sure I never filled it up as WinWord still fitted on a single floppy. I still must have it somewhere, however I don't expect it to work any more, haven't tried it for years, and am not going to bother... :)

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                        Did you mean to say 1 MB Disk :)

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                          Did you mean to say 1 MB Disk :)

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                          Nope. I do remember the very first "Winchester disks" with a 5 or 10 MB capacity though. And early PC's where a hard disk (or a second 8" floppy drive) was a luxurious option. :)

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                            Nope. I do remember the very first "Winchester disks" with a 5 or 10 MB capacity though. And early PC's where a hard disk (or a second 8" floppy drive) was a luxurious option. :)

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                            I realized after I posted that you said 90's and I must have read it as 80's.

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                            • A AspDotNetDev

                              I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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                              I think my old system had a 500M disk, which was considered pretty big at the time. I'm not tempted to go back; I like Windows 7... Also missing from MSDN downloads: Windows Millenium, NT, and 2000. I have some of those from an old MSDN subscription, but doubt I'll ever use them...

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                              • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                                aspdotnetdev wrote:

                                Windows 3.11

                                What would you run on it?

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                                What can you run on Windows 3.11? Lots of things. Excel 4, Word 6. Visual C++ 1.0 Trumpet Winsock Netscape Navigator 4 What else do you really need? :laugh:

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                                  What can you run on Windows 3.11? Lots of things. Excel 4, Word 6. Visual C++ 1.0 Trumpet Winsock Netscape Navigator 4 What else do you really need? :laugh:

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                                  All the "can't live withouts" right? :)

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                                  • A AspDotNetDev

                                    I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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                                    Some of us still have to support commercial applications that run on it!

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                                      All the "can't live withouts" right? :)

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                                      yep! I had to think back to what we did with computers before the Internet.

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                                        yep! I had to think back to what we did with computers before the Internet.

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                                        Kenneth Kasajian wrote:

                                        I had to think back to what we did with computers before the Internet.

                                        Slide Rules? :)

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                                        • A AspDotNetDev

                                          I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:

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                                          Just for grins, I installed DOS 6.2 on a 3GHz Athlon machine a while back. Found the copy when I was cleaning out some stuff. Installed a few old programs I had lying around, too. It was eerie. The machine almost seemed psychic. The "answer" to your "request" was on screen before the enter key was all the way down.

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