Windows 1.0

From: Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com>
Date: Thu Oct 1 17:35:07 1998

Ah, I got the answer... there was a 1.01 with a limited release in the US
only, I still have yet to get confirmation over whether there was a retail
store package or whether it was bundled only. 1.03 was indeed the first
multinational release about 9 months later.

I'm sure there wasn't a 1.00, although 1.01 packages may have carried "1.0"
markings.

Kai

-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Walker [mailto:lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 9:01 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: als for it


On 30 Sep 98 at 9:19, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, there was no Windows 1.00. As I recall, we
> released 1.03 as the first version.
>
> 1.03 was available only on 360K 5 1/4" and had no VGA support. 1.04 was
the
> same as 1.03 except it was available only on 720K 3 1/2" and supported the
> PS/2 _exclusively_.
>
> Kai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Ismail [mailto:dastar_at_ncal.verio.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:16 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Windows 1.0?
>
> Someone posted recently that they have the originals (or copies) of
> Windows 1.0? Could you please get in touch with me?
>
> Sam Alternate e-mail:

 Sorry Kai, I usually tend to take your MS statements as gospel but in this
case I've just been looking at the flash page and desktop of Windows 1.01
copyrighted 1984 and the files are dated 11-15-85. Unless this was a pirated

version smuggled out of MS or an elaborate put-on it must be the first
issue. It has a somewhat-Norton Commander style desktop but has most of
the utilities of the later version - notepad, write, calendar ,etc. and a
pif-editor and win.ini. It comes on 5 360k disks with a set-up program that
builds a small Win.com and an much larger overlay binarie. As you mention it

doesn't support VGA and the readme file has a lot of references to problems
with AboveBoard (the Intel mem-expansion card). I've had it for a short
while
and just now installed it on an 8580 PS2 running DRDOS. While I can get the
desktop the utilities hang with the familiar hourglass.
 I just tried it on my 5150 which has an Inboard card and uses the A20
handler but only 1meg memory and also heavily configured and with Dos 5. It
crashed leaving me at the prompt. Using my favorite shell CMFiler got me to

a blank screen before crashing . Likely memory related.
  I'm going to try it on one of my 286s' using an earlier dos and with one
of
1.01's memory handlers emm.at or emm.xt (dated 7-30-85) in autoexec. I have
of course no manual.
 I do run on, sorry.

ciao larry

lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 17:35:07 BST