Fast Company tech editor Harry McCracken has figured out a way to install a classic version of Windows, version 3.1 to be exact, on the iPad. Using an app called iDOS, you can install the traditional ...

Windows 3.1 can now be installed on your iPad, thanks to an MS-DOS emulator named iDOS 2 available in the App Store. Here is how you can install Windows 3.1 on your iPad. First, you will need to ...

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Windows ...

The primary mode for Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups. It used the 386's virtual capabilities, and DOS applications could be multitasked in the background and run in resizable windows. (Win 3.x, ...

A major upgrade to Windows 3.0, introduced in 1992. It added more stability and support for multimedia, TrueType fonts, compound documents (OLE) and drag & drop. Windows 3.1 ran 16-bit Windows and DOS ...

With the release of the Windows File Manager in 1990 for Windows 3.0, the graphical user interface (GUI) made it much easier for users of all experience levels to manipulate their files and folders.

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I have an ancient laptop from the 1990s -- A Compaq Lite 4/33c which traveled with me to the ends of the Earth. The machine is running MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 and has the following hard drive: Seagate ...

It might be difficult for modern audiences to believe, but at one point Microsoft Windows fit on floppy disks. This was a simpler time, with smaller hard drives, lower resolution displays, and no ...