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So I installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (not to be confused with Windows 3.11), it was so much quicker to boot. Windows 95 was nice, but after OSR2 it just seemed too slow with my 8 MB of RAM (I later spent $80 on a 32MB SIMM to get a whopping 40 megs). I remember using Calypso on my 486 back in the late 90’s. Of course that kind of thing is only skin deep and couldn’t solve the real problems with the OS. I remember some other Windows 3 GUI enhancements, for example a NeXTSTEP style Dock and Window theme, the equivalent of running an Aqua theme on Windows XP I suppose. I might end up the same way with Windows 2K/XP, as I’m not planning on upgrading to Vista any time soon.
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Still, it’s interesting to see how people have managed to update Windows 3, and keep on using it for so many years after it was replaced. Despite its high system requirements and the lack of any real innovation, Windows 95 was one of the few Windows releases that I considered essential. Obviously it was a big improvement over Windows 1&2, but just about anything would look good compared with them.Compared with the RISC OS desktop I was using at home, with its drag and drop, iconbar and elegant window management, it seemed like something out of the stone age.
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Quite a few of the people I worked with prefered using DOS apps like old versions of Wordperfect, rather than having to deal with Windows 3. The GUI was an unintuitive mess that just wasn’t designed for multitasking apps, while the system crashed even more than the worst versions of System 7 that I tried on my Powerbook. I’m a retro computer/OS geek, but that’s one of the few old systems that I have no warm feelings of nostalgia about whatsoever. At the time I remember hating the fact that I had to use it in work. It’s funny to see people looking back fondly at Windows 3.