Win3.1 code in Win8 base?
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Shameel wrote:
Win 3.1 was not a true OS
Contentious argument that. I can't make up my mind whether I agree or not. It depends how you define operating system.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
I'd certainly expect any OS to contain all the code required to boot up the system and perform at a minimum basic filesystem operations and to allow you to run applications. Take a PC with a single unformatted drive (or even a blank formatted one) and a set of Win3.1 floppies. Good luck installing it without installing an OS (in this case DOS) first. Windows up to v3.11 (v4 if you used ICL PCs) was a GUI not an OS