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targeting Windows 1.0 console (Developers)

posted by kerravon , Sydney, Free World South, 30.04.2025, 18:13

Sorry for the confusion - just found out that Windows 1.0 was real mode only. Not sure why they introduced the NE format at that time (1985). Maybe future planning.

Anyway, so the question should be about a "PM16 version of Windows". And not necessarily virtual memory - just being able to malloc() 5 MB on a 16 MiB 80386 running in PM16 would be what I am after.

And with a bit of advanced planning when I was a toddler, I might have been able to compete with Gates for the 80286 market, as it doesn't sound like Windows ever took advantage of that capability - only OS/2 1.0 did that. Presumably Gates (allegedly) called the 80286 "brain-dead" because he wasn't selling a product for the 80286 at the time or whatever.

So my competing product would be mini-Windows clone that took advantage of the 80286 and was compatible with Windows/386. And since I'm rolling my own anyway, mine gives you a console, instead of batch-only on Gates's crappy competing version.

Complete thread:

• targeting Windows 1.0 console - kerravon, 30.04.2025, 15:11 (Developers)
  • targeting Windows 1.0 console - kerravon, 30.04.2025, 18:13