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WINDOWS
1.0, 2.0, 3.0
WINDOWS 1.O -
•A 16-BIT GRAPHICAL OPERATING
ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT
CORPORATION AND RELEASED ON 20 NOVEMBER
1985.
• IT WAS MICROSOFT'S FIRST ATTEMPT TO
IMPLEMENT A MULTI-TASKING GRAPHICAL USER
INTERFACE-BASED OPERATING ENVIRONMENT ON
THE PC PLATFORM. WINDOWS 1.0 WAS THE FIRST
VERSION OF WINDOWS LAUNCHED. IT WAS
SUCCEEDED BY WINDOWS 2.0.
Windows 1.01 was first released on 20
November 1985.Version 1.02, released in
May 1986, was an international release.
Version 1.03, released in August 1986
included enhancements that made it consistent with the international
release. It included drivers for European keyboards and additional screen
and printer drivers. Version 1.04, released
in April 1987, added support for the new
IBM PS/2 computers, although no support for PS/2 mice or new VGA
graphics modes was provided. At the same
time, Microsoft and IBM announced the introduction of OS/2 and its
graphical OS/2Presentation Manager, which were supposed to ultimately
replace both MS-DOS and Windows.[
Windows 1.0 Beta (0.99) was the very-shortly-released framework of
Windows 1.0 from March 1985, and was black and white, with fewer
features than Windows 1.0.
In November 1987, Windows 1.0 was succeeded by Windows 2.0.
Microsoft supported Windows 1.0 for 16 years, the longest out of all
versions of Windows, until December 31, 2001.
history
Competition
The history of Windows dates back to September 1981, when
the project named "Interface Manager" was started. It was
first presented to the public on November 10, 1983, renamed
to "Microsoft Windows"; the two years of delay before release
led to charges that it was vaporware. The initially announced
version of Windows had features so much resembling the
Macintosh interface that Microsoft had to change many of
them: overlapping windows, although supported by the GUI
engine, weren't allowed for this exact reason. The
announcement of Windows' imminent arrival in 1985 probably
did not help the sales of VisiCorp's Visi On environment which
debuted at the same time. However, even when finally
released, Windows 1.0 aroused little interest.
Another GUI for the PC platform at the time was GEM. It used
more aspects from the Macintosh GUI, for example the trash
can concept (which Microsoft would employ in future Windows
releases) and more generally the desktop interaction. GEM
was eventually used as the standard GUI for
the Atari's ST range of 68k-based computers,which were
sometimes referred to as Jackintoshes (the company CEO
was Jack Tramiel).
An alternative multitasked to GEM, released shortly before,
was Quarterdeck's DESQview, modeled after but more
memory-economical and versatile than IBM's
failed TopView from 1984. It did not have graphical
capabilities initially, but is able to multitask DOS applications
in windows as long as they are well-behaved or have a
specially written "loader" to fix them on the fly.
Windows 1.0 market share grew very slowly. Early Windows
versions of Microsoft Excel and other Windows applications
were bundled with a runtime version of Windows, presumably
to both increase sales of the applications and allow users to
"test drive" Windows at no additional cost. The Apple Lisa II
was 1.0's competitor, and it had a graphical interface.
Highlights from the first 25 years
1975–1981: Microsoft boots up
Windows 1.0 offers limited multitasking of existing MS-DOS programs and
concentrates on creating an interaction paradigm (cf. message loop), an
execution model and a stable API for native programs for the future. Due
to Microsoft's extensive support for backward compatibility, it is not only
possible to execute Windows 1.0 binary programs on current versions of
Windows to a large extent, but also to recompile their source code into an
equally functional "modern" application with just limited modifications.[9]
Windows 1.0 is often regarded as a "front-end to the MS-DOS operating
system", a description which has also been applied to subsequent
versions of Windows. Windows 1.0 is an MS-DOS program. Windows 1.0
programs can call MS-DOS functions, and GUI programs are run
from .exe files just like MS-DOS programs. However, Windows .exe files
had their own "new executable" (NE) file format, which only Windows
could process and which, for example, allowed demand-loading of code
and data. Applications were supposed to handle memory only through
Windows' own memory management system, which implemented a
software-based virtual memory scheme allowing for applications larger
than available RAM.
Because graphics support in MS-DOS is extremely limited, MS-DOS
applications have to go to the bare hardware (or sometimes just to
the BIOS) to get work done. Therefore, Windows 1.0 included original
device drivers for video cards, a mouse, keyboards, printers and serial
communications, and applications were supposed to only invoke APIs
built upon these drivers. However, this extended to other APIs such as file
system management functions. In this sense, Windows 1.0 was designed
to be extended into a full-fledged operating system, rather than being just
a graphics environment used by applications. Indeed, Windows 1.0 is a
"DOS front-end" and cannot operate without a DOS environment (it
uses, for example, the file-handling functions provided by DOS.) The level
of replacement increases in subsequent versions.
The system requirements for Windows 1.01
constituted CGA/HGC/EGA (listed as "Monochrome or color
monitor"), MS-DOS 2.0, 256 kB of memory or greater, and two double-
sided disk drives or a hard drive. Beginning with version 1.03, support for
Tandy and AT&T graphics modes were added.
Windows 1.0 runs a shell program known as the MS-DOS Executive,
which is little more than a mouse-able output of the DIR command that
does not support icons and is not Y2K-compliant. Other supplied
programs are Calculator, Calendar, Clipboard viewer,
Clock, Notepad, Paint, Reversi, Cardfile, Terminal and Write.
Windows 1.0 does not allow overlapping windows. Instead all windows
are tiled. Only dialog boxes can appear over other windows. Windows
1.0 executables, while having a similar .exe extension and initial file
header similar to MS-DOS programs, do not contain the code that prints
the "This program requires Microsoft Windows" message and exits when
the program is run outside of Windows. Instead, the exe file header has a
newer C programming model specifying more memory and makes DOS
reject the executable with a "program too large to fit in memory" error
message.[15]
From the beginning, Windows was intended to multitask programs
(although this originally only applied to native applications and for many
versions the multitasking was co-operative, rather than preemptive). Pre-
release versions had menus at the bottom of windows, as it was used in
Microsoft applications, such as Word and Multiplan of that era; however,
this was changed before the first release.
 is a 16-bit Microsoft Windows GUI-based operating
environment that was released on December 9,
1987 and is the successor to Windows 1.0.
With Windows 2.1x in 1988, Windows 2.0 was
supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386.
Windows 2.0, Windows/286 and Windows/386 were
superseded by Windows 3.0 in May 1990, but
supported by Microsoft for fourteen years until
December 31, 2001.
 Windows 2.0 allowed application windows to overlap each
other unlike its predecessor Windows 1.0, which could display
only tiled windows. Windows 2.0 also introduced more
sophisticated keyboard-shortcuts and the terminology of
"Minimize" and "Maximize", as opposed to "Iconize" and
"Zoom" in Windows 1.0. The basic window setup introduced
here would last through Windows 3.1. Like Windows 1.x,
Windows 2.x applications cannot be run on Windows 3.1 or up
without modifications since they weren't designed for
protected mode. Windows 2.0 was also the first Windows
version to integrate the control panel.
New features in Windows 2.0 included VGA graphics
(although 16 colors only). It was also the last version of
Windows that did not require a hard disk. The Windows 2.x
EGA, VGA, and Tandy drivers notably provided a workaround
in Windows 3.0 for users who wanted color graphics on 8086
machines (a feature that version normally did not support).
EMS memory support also appeared for the first time.
The first Windows versions of Microsoft
Word and Microsoft Excel ran on Windows 2.0.
Third-party developer support for Windows
increased substantially with this version (some
shipped the Windows Runtime software with their
applications, for customers who had not purchased
the full version of Windows). However, most
developers still maintained DOS versions of their
applications, as Windows users were still a distinct
minority of their market. Windows 2.0 was still very
dependent on the DOS system and it still hadn't
passed the 1 megabyte mark in terms of memory.
There were some applications that shipped with
Windows 2.0. They are:
 CALC.EXE – a calculator
 CALENDAR.EXE – calendaring software
 CARDFILE.EXE – a personal information manager
 CLIPBRD.EXE – software for viewing the contents of the clipboard
 CLOCK.EXE – a clock
 CONTROL.EXE – the system utility responsible for configuring Windows
2.0
 CVTPAINT.EXE - Converted paint files to the 2.x format[2]
 MSDOS.EXE – a simple file manager
 NOTEPAD.EXE – a text editor
 PAINT.EXE – a raster graphics editor that allows users to paint and edit
pictures interactively on the computer screen
 PIFEDIT.EXE – a program information file editor that defines how a DOS
program should behave inside Windows
 REVERSI.EXE – a computer game of reversi
 SPOOLER.EXE – the print spooler of Windows, a program that manages
and maintains a queue of documents to printed, sending them printer as
soon as possible
 TERMINAL.EXE – a terminal emulator
 WRITE.EXE – a simple word processor
 Windows 3.0, a graphical environment, is the third
major release of Microsoft Windows, and was
released on May 22, 1990. It became the first
widely successful version of Windows and a rival
to Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on
the GUI front. It was followed by Windows 3.1.
Windows 3.0 originated in 1989 when a group of
Microsoft programmers independently decided to
develop a protected mode Windows as an
experiment. They cobbled together a rough
prototype and presented it to company executives,
who were impressed enough to approve it as an
official project.
Windows 3.0 succeeded Windows 2.1x and included a significantly
revamped user interface as well as technical improvements to make better
use of the memory management capabilities
of Intel's 80286 and 80386 processors. Text-mode programs written for MS-
DOS could be run within a window (a feature previously available in a more
limited form with Windows/386 2.1), making the system usable as a
crude multitasking base for legacy programs. However, this was of limited
use for the home market, where most games and entertainment programs
continued to require raw DOS access.
The MS-DOS Executive file manager/program launcher was replaced with
the icon-based Program Manager and the list-based File Manager, thereby
simplifying the launching of applications. The MS-DOS Executive is also
included as an alternative to these. The Control Panel, previously available
as a standard-looking applet, was re-modeled after the one in Mac OS. It
centralized system settings, including limited control over the color scheme
of the interface.
A number of simple applications were included, such as the text
editor Notepad and the word processor Write (both inherited from earlier
versions of Windows), a macro recorder (new; later dropped), the paint
program Paintbrush (inherited but substantially improved), and a calculator
(also inherited). Also, the earlier Reversi game was complemented with
the card game Solitaire.
he Windows icons and graphics support a full 16 colors in EGA and VGA mode while
Windows 2.x only had colored menus and window boxes with in-application graphics
being monochrome. 256 color VGA mode was supported for the first time.
Windows 3.0 includes a Protected/Enhanced mode which allows Windows
applications to use more memory in a more painless manner than their DOS
counterparts could. It can run in any of Real, Standard, or 386 Enhanced modes, and
is compatible with any Intel processor from the 8086/8088up to 80286 and 80386.
Windows 3.0 tries to auto detect which mode to run in, although it can be forced to run
in a specific mode using the switches: /r (real mode), /s ("standard" 286 protected
mode) and /3 (386 enhanced protected mode) respectively. Since Windows 3.0 (and
later Windows 3.1) runs in 16-bit 286 protected mode and not 32-bit 386 protected
mode, applications must still work with 64k memory segments like in DOS although
32-bit instructions may be contained in the code (Ami Pro was the first Windows
application to require a 386). Because of this, Windows 3.0 can only access 16MB
total of RAM even on 386 CPUs which have the theoretical capability of utilizing 4GB.
This was the first version to run Windows programs in protected mode, although the
386 enhanced mode kernel was an enhanced version of the protected mode kernel for
Windows/286.
A "multimedia" version, Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 1.0, was released
later in 1991. This was bundled with "multimedia upgrade kits", comprising a CD-ROM
drive and a sound card, such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro. This version
was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3.1 and later, and
was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC.
Windows 3.0 was the last version of Windows to advertise 100% compatibility with
older Windows applications. This only applies to real mode.
Windows 3.0 was the only version of Windows that
could be run in three different memory modes:
 Real mode, intended for older computers with a
CPU below Intel 80286, and corresponding to
its real mode;
 Standard mode, intended for computers with an
80286 processor, and corresponding to
its protected mode;
 386 Enhanced mode, intended for newer
computers with an Intel 80386 processor or above,
and corresponding to its protected mode and virtual
8086 mode.
 This version of Windows was the first to be pre-installed on hard drives by
PC-compatible manufacturers. Zenith Data Systems had previously
shipped all of its computers with Windows 1.0 or later 2.x on diskettes but
committed early in the development of Windows 3.0 to shipping it pre-
installed. Indeed, the Zenith division had pushed Microsoft hard to
develop the graphical user interface because of Zenith's direct
competition with Apple in the educational market. However, Zenith PCs
had to run a proprietary OEM version of Windows because they used
hard disks with 1024 byte sectors (instead of the normal 512 bytes) and
could not use the standard SWAPFILE.EXE
 In December 1990, Microsoft released an updated Windows 3.0 with bug
fixes and improved ability to move pieces of data greater than 64k (the
original release could only manipulate one segment of RAM at a time).
 Windows 3.0 was not available as a run-time version, as was the case
with its predecessors. A limited-use version of Windows 2.x was often
bundled with other applications (i.e. Ami Pro) due to the low market
penetration of Windows itself. It again was unsupported after December
31, 2001.
 Standard retail and OEM distributions of Windows 3.0 were on high
density 1.2MB and 1.44MB floppy disks. A 720k version was also
offered, and a 360k edition could be ordered from Microsoft. Fully
installed, Windows 3.0 used 5MB of hard disk space.
SOFTWARE SUPPORT
 Windows 3.0 was the first Windows version to see widespread
use, although DOS still remained dominant (especially for
games) and freeware and shareware applications for
Windows considerably outnumbered commercial ones. It also
significantly spurred sales of new PCs with larger RAM
capacities as many older machines lacked the speed or
memory to handle a demanding OS like Windows properly,
and some could not run it in protected mode due to outdated
BIOSes or lack of proper P-mode implementation (since very
few applications used protected mode prior to Windows 3.0,
PC manufacturers sometimes did not bother including
functional support for it in either the hardware, BIOS, or both.
 Windows 3.0 had a software update that was never released
that increased the speed of the floppy disk drive. By the time it
was ready to be launched, a new version of Windows was
released.
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  • 2. WINDOWS 1.O - •A 16-BIT GRAPHICAL OPERATING ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT CORPORATION AND RELEASED ON 20 NOVEMBER 1985. • IT WAS MICROSOFT'S FIRST ATTEMPT TO IMPLEMENT A MULTI-TASKING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE-BASED OPERATING ENVIRONMENT ON THE PC PLATFORM. WINDOWS 1.0 WAS THE FIRST VERSION OF WINDOWS LAUNCHED. IT WAS SUCCEEDED BY WINDOWS 2.0.
  • 3. Windows 1.01 was first released on 20 November 1985.Version 1.02, released in May 1986, was an international release. Version 1.03, released in August 1986 included enhancements that made it consistent with the international release. It included drivers for European keyboards and additional screen and printer drivers. Version 1.04, released in April 1987, added support for the new IBM PS/2 computers, although no support for PS/2 mice or new VGA graphics modes was provided. At the same time, Microsoft and IBM announced the introduction of OS/2 and its graphical OS/2Presentation Manager, which were supposed to ultimately replace both MS-DOS and Windows.[ Windows 1.0 Beta (0.99) was the very-shortly-released framework of Windows 1.0 from March 1985, and was black and white, with fewer features than Windows 1.0. In November 1987, Windows 1.0 was succeeded by Windows 2.0. Microsoft supported Windows 1.0 for 16 years, the longest out of all versions of Windows, until December 31, 2001. history
  • 4. Competition The history of Windows dates back to September 1981, when the project named "Interface Manager" was started. It was first presented to the public on November 10, 1983, renamed to "Microsoft Windows"; the two years of delay before release led to charges that it was vaporware. The initially announced version of Windows had features so much resembling the Macintosh interface that Microsoft had to change many of them: overlapping windows, although supported by the GUI engine, weren't allowed for this exact reason. The announcement of Windows' imminent arrival in 1985 probably did not help the sales of VisiCorp's Visi On environment which debuted at the same time. However, even when finally released, Windows 1.0 aroused little interest.
  • 5. Another GUI for the PC platform at the time was GEM. It used more aspects from the Macintosh GUI, for example the trash can concept (which Microsoft would employ in future Windows releases) and more generally the desktop interaction. GEM was eventually used as the standard GUI for the Atari's ST range of 68k-based computers,which were sometimes referred to as Jackintoshes (the company CEO was Jack Tramiel). An alternative multitasked to GEM, released shortly before, was Quarterdeck's DESQview, modeled after but more memory-economical and versatile than IBM's failed TopView from 1984. It did not have graphical capabilities initially, but is able to multitask DOS applications in windows as long as they are well-behaved or have a specially written "loader" to fix them on the fly. Windows 1.0 market share grew very slowly. Early Windows versions of Microsoft Excel and other Windows applications were bundled with a runtime version of Windows, presumably to both increase sales of the applications and allow users to "test drive" Windows at no additional cost. The Apple Lisa II was 1.0's competitor, and it had a graphical interface.
  • 6. Highlights from the first 25 years 1975–1981: Microsoft boots up
  • 7. Windows 1.0 offers limited multitasking of existing MS-DOS programs and concentrates on creating an interaction paradigm (cf. message loop), an execution model and a stable API for native programs for the future. Due to Microsoft's extensive support for backward compatibility, it is not only possible to execute Windows 1.0 binary programs on current versions of Windows to a large extent, but also to recompile their source code into an equally functional "modern" application with just limited modifications.[9] Windows 1.0 is often regarded as a "front-end to the MS-DOS operating system", a description which has also been applied to subsequent versions of Windows. Windows 1.0 is an MS-DOS program. Windows 1.0 programs can call MS-DOS functions, and GUI programs are run from .exe files just like MS-DOS programs. However, Windows .exe files had their own "new executable" (NE) file format, which only Windows could process and which, for example, allowed demand-loading of code and data. Applications were supposed to handle memory only through Windows' own memory management system, which implemented a software-based virtual memory scheme allowing for applications larger than available RAM.
  • 8. Because graphics support in MS-DOS is extremely limited, MS-DOS applications have to go to the bare hardware (or sometimes just to the BIOS) to get work done. Therefore, Windows 1.0 included original device drivers for video cards, a mouse, keyboards, printers and serial communications, and applications were supposed to only invoke APIs built upon these drivers. However, this extended to other APIs such as file system management functions. In this sense, Windows 1.0 was designed to be extended into a full-fledged operating system, rather than being just a graphics environment used by applications. Indeed, Windows 1.0 is a "DOS front-end" and cannot operate without a DOS environment (it uses, for example, the file-handling functions provided by DOS.) The level of replacement increases in subsequent versions. The system requirements for Windows 1.01 constituted CGA/HGC/EGA (listed as "Monochrome or color monitor"), MS-DOS 2.0, 256 kB of memory or greater, and two double- sided disk drives or a hard drive. Beginning with version 1.03, support for Tandy and AT&T graphics modes were added.
  • 9. Windows 1.0 runs a shell program known as the MS-DOS Executive, which is little more than a mouse-able output of the DIR command that does not support icons and is not Y2K-compliant. Other supplied programs are Calculator, Calendar, Clipboard viewer, Clock, Notepad, Paint, Reversi, Cardfile, Terminal and Write. Windows 1.0 does not allow overlapping windows. Instead all windows are tiled. Only dialog boxes can appear over other windows. Windows 1.0 executables, while having a similar .exe extension and initial file header similar to MS-DOS programs, do not contain the code that prints the "This program requires Microsoft Windows" message and exits when the program is run outside of Windows. Instead, the exe file header has a newer C programming model specifying more memory and makes DOS reject the executable with a "program too large to fit in memory" error message.[15] From the beginning, Windows was intended to multitask programs (although this originally only applied to native applications and for many versions the multitasking was co-operative, rather than preemptive). Pre- release versions had menus at the bottom of windows, as it was used in Microsoft applications, such as Word and Multiplan of that era; however, this was changed before the first release.
  • 10.  is a 16-bit Microsoft Windows GUI-based operating environment that was released on December 9, 1987 and is the successor to Windows 1.0. With Windows 2.1x in 1988, Windows 2.0 was supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386. Windows 2.0, Windows/286 and Windows/386 were superseded by Windows 3.0 in May 1990, but supported by Microsoft for fourteen years until December 31, 2001.
  • 11.  Windows 2.0 allowed application windows to overlap each other unlike its predecessor Windows 1.0, which could display only tiled windows. Windows 2.0 also introduced more sophisticated keyboard-shortcuts and the terminology of "Minimize" and "Maximize", as opposed to "Iconize" and "Zoom" in Windows 1.0. The basic window setup introduced here would last through Windows 3.1. Like Windows 1.x, Windows 2.x applications cannot be run on Windows 3.1 or up without modifications since they weren't designed for protected mode. Windows 2.0 was also the first Windows version to integrate the control panel. New features in Windows 2.0 included VGA graphics (although 16 colors only). It was also the last version of Windows that did not require a hard disk. The Windows 2.x EGA, VGA, and Tandy drivers notably provided a workaround in Windows 3.0 for users who wanted color graphics on 8086 machines (a feature that version normally did not support). EMS memory support also appeared for the first time.
  • 12. The first Windows versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel ran on Windows 2.0. Third-party developer support for Windows increased substantially with this version (some shipped the Windows Runtime software with their applications, for customers who had not purchased the full version of Windows). However, most developers still maintained DOS versions of their applications, as Windows users were still a distinct minority of their market. Windows 2.0 was still very dependent on the DOS system and it still hadn't passed the 1 megabyte mark in terms of memory.
  • 13. There were some applications that shipped with Windows 2.0. They are:  CALC.EXE – a calculator  CALENDAR.EXE – calendaring software  CARDFILE.EXE – a personal information manager  CLIPBRD.EXE – software for viewing the contents of the clipboard  CLOCK.EXE – a clock  CONTROL.EXE – the system utility responsible for configuring Windows 2.0  CVTPAINT.EXE - Converted paint files to the 2.x format[2]  MSDOS.EXE – a simple file manager  NOTEPAD.EXE – a text editor  PAINT.EXE – a raster graphics editor that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen  PIFEDIT.EXE – a program information file editor that defines how a DOS program should behave inside Windows  REVERSI.EXE – a computer game of reversi  SPOOLER.EXE – the print spooler of Windows, a program that manages and maintains a queue of documents to printed, sending them printer as soon as possible  TERMINAL.EXE – a terminal emulator  WRITE.EXE – a simple word processor
  • 14.  Windows 3.0, a graphical environment, is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and was released on May 22, 1990. It became the first widely successful version of Windows and a rival to Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front. It was followed by Windows 3.1. Windows 3.0 originated in 1989 when a group of Microsoft programmers independently decided to develop a protected mode Windows as an experiment. They cobbled together a rough prototype and presented it to company executives, who were impressed enough to approve it as an official project.
  • 15. Windows 3.0 succeeded Windows 2.1x and included a significantly revamped user interface as well as technical improvements to make better use of the memory management capabilities of Intel's 80286 and 80386 processors. Text-mode programs written for MS- DOS could be run within a window (a feature previously available in a more limited form with Windows/386 2.1), making the system usable as a crude multitasking base for legacy programs. However, this was of limited use for the home market, where most games and entertainment programs continued to require raw DOS access. The MS-DOS Executive file manager/program launcher was replaced with the icon-based Program Manager and the list-based File Manager, thereby simplifying the launching of applications. The MS-DOS Executive is also included as an alternative to these. The Control Panel, previously available as a standard-looking applet, was re-modeled after the one in Mac OS. It centralized system settings, including limited control over the color scheme of the interface. A number of simple applications were included, such as the text editor Notepad and the word processor Write (both inherited from earlier versions of Windows), a macro recorder (new; later dropped), the paint program Paintbrush (inherited but substantially improved), and a calculator (also inherited). Also, the earlier Reversi game was complemented with the card game Solitaire.
  • 16. he Windows icons and graphics support a full 16 colors in EGA and VGA mode while Windows 2.x only had colored menus and window boxes with in-application graphics being monochrome. 256 color VGA mode was supported for the first time. Windows 3.0 includes a Protected/Enhanced mode which allows Windows applications to use more memory in a more painless manner than their DOS counterparts could. It can run in any of Real, Standard, or 386 Enhanced modes, and is compatible with any Intel processor from the 8086/8088up to 80286 and 80386. Windows 3.0 tries to auto detect which mode to run in, although it can be forced to run in a specific mode using the switches: /r (real mode), /s ("standard" 286 protected mode) and /3 (386 enhanced protected mode) respectively. Since Windows 3.0 (and later Windows 3.1) runs in 16-bit 286 protected mode and not 32-bit 386 protected mode, applications must still work with 64k memory segments like in DOS although 32-bit instructions may be contained in the code (Ami Pro was the first Windows application to require a 386). Because of this, Windows 3.0 can only access 16MB total of RAM even on 386 CPUs which have the theoretical capability of utilizing 4GB. This was the first version to run Windows programs in protected mode, although the 386 enhanced mode kernel was an enhanced version of the protected mode kernel for Windows/286. A "multimedia" version, Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 1.0, was released later in 1991. This was bundled with "multimedia upgrade kits", comprising a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro. This version was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3.1 and later, and was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC. Windows 3.0 was the last version of Windows to advertise 100% compatibility with older Windows applications. This only applies to real mode.
  • 17. Windows 3.0 was the only version of Windows that could be run in three different memory modes:  Real mode, intended for older computers with a CPU below Intel 80286, and corresponding to its real mode;  Standard mode, intended for computers with an 80286 processor, and corresponding to its protected mode;  386 Enhanced mode, intended for newer computers with an Intel 80386 processor or above, and corresponding to its protected mode and virtual 8086 mode.
  • 18.  This version of Windows was the first to be pre-installed on hard drives by PC-compatible manufacturers. Zenith Data Systems had previously shipped all of its computers with Windows 1.0 or later 2.x on diskettes but committed early in the development of Windows 3.0 to shipping it pre- installed. Indeed, the Zenith division had pushed Microsoft hard to develop the graphical user interface because of Zenith's direct competition with Apple in the educational market. However, Zenith PCs had to run a proprietary OEM version of Windows because they used hard disks with 1024 byte sectors (instead of the normal 512 bytes) and could not use the standard SWAPFILE.EXE  In December 1990, Microsoft released an updated Windows 3.0 with bug fixes and improved ability to move pieces of data greater than 64k (the original release could only manipulate one segment of RAM at a time).  Windows 3.0 was not available as a run-time version, as was the case with its predecessors. A limited-use version of Windows 2.x was often bundled with other applications (i.e. Ami Pro) due to the low market penetration of Windows itself. It again was unsupported after December 31, 2001.  Standard retail and OEM distributions of Windows 3.0 were on high density 1.2MB and 1.44MB floppy disks. A 720k version was also offered, and a 360k edition could be ordered from Microsoft. Fully installed, Windows 3.0 used 5MB of hard disk space.
  • 19. SOFTWARE SUPPORT  Windows 3.0 was the first Windows version to see widespread use, although DOS still remained dominant (especially for games) and freeware and shareware applications for Windows considerably outnumbered commercial ones. It also significantly spurred sales of new PCs with larger RAM capacities as many older machines lacked the speed or memory to handle a demanding OS like Windows properly, and some could not run it in protected mode due to outdated BIOSes or lack of proper P-mode implementation (since very few applications used protected mode prior to Windows 3.0, PC manufacturers sometimes did not bother including functional support for it in either the hardware, BIOS, or both.  Windows 3.0 had a software update that was never released that increased the speed of the floppy disk drive. By the time it was ready to be launched, a new version of Windows was released.