On this day, 30 years ago Microsoft Introduced Windows 3.0 Operating System. At that time it was only a graphic add-on over MS-DOS, but even then the system included the legendary Solitaire solitaire. After that, Windows 3.1 came out, but it was the “troika” that became popular and was sold with a circulation of more than 10 million copies.
By today’s standards, the system had very modest requirements – a processor Intel 8086/8088, 1 MB of RAM and just 6.5 MB of read-only memory on disk. In this case, first you had to install MS-DOS, and Windows was already running as a separate application. A similar structure is now implemented on UNIX-like operating systems, which also run the X Window System.
And the “troika” could be launched directly from a floppy disk, since not all PCs were equipped with hard disks then.
By the way, support for Win32 applications appeared only in version 3.1.
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