Win 3.0

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Jan 30 08:33:27 1998

At 10:04 PM 1/29/98 -0800, you wrote:
>At 00:10 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I might be mistaken, but I somehow recall that someone said that
>>it was possible to run windows 3.0 on an XT???
>>A buddy of mine gave me an unopened box of v3.0 but the back
>>says it requires a 286.
>>So whats the deal?
>
>Deal is, you can't run Windows 3.x on any processor that doesn't have
>protected mode. I think the last Windows you could run on an XT was 2.1.
>
  I saw a package of Win 2.0 in a surplus store here if anyone really wants
it I'll pick it up. No docs just the set of disks.

   Joe


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