[Am-info] History of Windows

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Eric M. Hopper on 1/31/02 9:37 PM ---

>Windows 1.0 was used.  A company I worked for when I was 17 had a very
>old version of Pagemaker for Windows 1.0.  It was the strangest thing. 
>I couldn't really use Windows all by itself, but only in the context of
>Pagemaker.  It required a 386 to run well then, when a 16 MHz 386 was
>the fastest thing on the planet.

I remember seeing Windows 1.0 on a computer in a store, probably in 1985 
or 1986. It was so astonishingly crude, I could hardly believe it was 
ever released.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com