Windows V3.2?!?

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu May 9 09:13:38 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Blakeman [mailto:rhb57_at_vol.com]

> I remember a patch or add-on that was referred to as Win 3.2 - added
> supposedly 32 bit features to the old WIn3.x and I think was
> just really a
> tinkering project in the development of 95. One of the things that I
> remember in it was the first signs of SolFree but since I
> rarely play games
> it never really grabbed me that much.

Sure. You're thinking of "win32s," which was an add-on to kind of
poorly retrofit windows 3.1 with some "nt features." It is very
similar to the later windows 95, in fact, and some versions of the
microshaft development products would allow you to produce apps that
used a somewhat limited subset of the win32 api, which would work on
any of the three systems.

I seem to remember that win32s may have been rather limited in what
it could draw to the screen -- being still only able to really use
windows 3.1 widgets, and that there were a few file handling
conveniences that weren't added in. It has been a while, though.

FWIW, many windows programs (understandably -- things like mpeg players,
Mosaic, etc, etc...) used to require this. It was distributed, and may
still be distributed, for free.

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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