Forget About XP: Let's Save Windows for Workgroups 3.11!

re: Forget About XP: Let's Save Windows for Workgroups 3.11!

Waethorn — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:52:17 GMT

"as realistic as the 128 Mb minimum for Windows XP"

Actually, it's only 64MB. At least, that's what it was when it was first released. The *recommended* amount at that time was 128MB. It would also install on a 233MHz CPU.

Since then, I believe they've updated the RAM requirement to 128MB with 256MB being the recommended amount. I think that was SP1 or SP2 when they changed it.

I say to anyone with 256MB that current antivirus software is too slow on that amount, and recommend they upgrade to 512MB at the very least (especially since RAM is very cheap now). Obviously, more is better though. 512MB works fine for browsing and "regular" home use, but multimedia and light gaming requires 1GB. High-end gaming should have 2GB. I tell people to double those numbers for Vista (and use x64 whenever possible). New computer shoppers will get Vista anyway, and since systems are so cheap now, it's pretty easy to get a system with 4GB of RAM. Gateway has even started moving many of its consumer lines over to the x64 versions of Vista Home Premium too. Now with Vista SP1, it seems the best time to get a head start on x64. The x64 SP1 versions seem to be getting the highest application benchmark scores too (even over XP SP2/SP3).

re: Forget About XP: Let's Save Windows for Workgroups 3.11!

beaker — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:41:18 GMT

This is terrible!!!! How can we allow them to discontinue the best version of Windows??

OMG!

re: Forget About XP: Let's Save Windows for Workgroups 3.11!

Dipsh t Admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:37:49 GMT

"Anyway, this means you could actually run 2000 (two-thousand) copies of Windows 3.1 in your machine! ;-)"

Correction, 2048! (assuming no overhead of course) ;)

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ajgelado — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:00:28 GMT

BrightrevCarl, Windows 3.1 was able to run with as little as 1 Mb of RAM. Windows 3.11 for Workgroups required 2 Mb, and Windows 95 received many critics for requiring 4 Mb! Of course, these figures were as realistic as the 128 Mb minimum for Windows XP - the system would boot fine, but it would start crawling as soon as you opened an application. Anyway, this means you could actually run 2000 (two-thousand) copies of Windows 3.1 in your machine! ;-)

re: Forget About XP: Let's Save Windows for Workgroups 3.11!

subzerohitman721 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:51:07 GMT

Perhaps Microsoft should save some of the more classic Windows in a tribute disk. Call it the "Windows: The Legacy." Bundle in this DVD all of the recent Windows versions for legacy computers. The bundle would include DOS, Windows 1, 2, 3, 95 and 98 in a tribute pack. Especially with Hyper V, Virtual PC, or VMware, so that you can show people how we used to do things. That way those ancient computers willl still have an OS. I think that would be a fitting tribute.

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Joshu4 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:09:58 GMT

Clippit died in office 2003, which is almost too bad. i kinda liked the thing.

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BrightrevCarl — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:53:58 GMT

That graphic is AWESOME and so appropriate for the occasion. You know you can run Windows 3.1 in 4 MB of RAM, right? I could run 500 copies of it SIMULTANEOUSLY on my PC. Where do I sign up?

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meason — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:39:41 GMT

@FlyerMike

oh I bet someone out there is still using BOB :) Let me go check to see if its in my msdn subscription

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nmg82 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:11:24 GMT

good stuff!

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FlyerMike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:29:42 GMT

@meason

Can't really save Bob, he's been dead for years now. Not even sure if he was ever really here :)

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meason — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:06:52 GMT

I await the "SAVE MICROSOFT BOB" Campaign myself.....

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Dipsh t Admin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:11 GMT

Good one, Paul! I guess this means that 9x is still running on some embedded devices somewhere, and that we will have a save Windows 9x and ME petition soon enough ;)

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