{"id":4099,"date":"2016-08-08T20:33:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2016-08-07T20:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:49:01","slug":"windows-3-11-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/windows-3-11-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 3.11 nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because OS\/2 didn’t go so well… let’s try something I’m a lot<\/strong> more familiar with. To be honest, the last time I in earnest used Windows on the desktop was around 3.11, so I kind of know it back to front (fun fact: I’ve read the entire Windows 3.0<\/strong> manual).<\/p>\n

It turns out that once you have MS-DOS installed in qemu, installing Windows 3.11 is trivial.<\/strong> I didn’t even change any settings for Qemu, I just basically specced everything up to be very minimal (50MB RAM, 512mb disk).<\/p>\n

\"win31-setup\"<\/a>\"win31-disk4\"<\/a>\"win31-installed\"<\/a>Windows 3.11 was not a fun time as soon as you had to do anything… nightmares of drivers, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT plague my mind. But hey, it’s damn fast<\/strong> on a modern processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because OS\/2 didn’t go so well… let’s try something I’m a lot more familiar with. To be honest, the last time I in earnest used Windows on the desktop was around 3.11, so I kind of know it back to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[675,674,65],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-msdos","tag-win311","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-147","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4105,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/microsoft-chicago-retro-in-qemu\/","url_meta":{"origin":4099,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft Chicago – retro in qemu!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2016-08-13","format":false,"excerpt":"So, way back when (sometime in the early 1990s) there was Windows 3.11 and times were... for Workgroups. 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