Windows 1.0: the Power of DOS, Plus Tiled Windows 249
jbrodkin writes "I'd always wanted my own working copy of the elusive Windows 1.0, and after a few failed attempts I got one working in a virtual machine (I had to downgrade from the latest version of Windows Virtual PC to an earlier version to get it started, but that's another story). With 416K free memory, we were able to cruise through Reversi, take a look at the first version of Notepad, as well as the now-defunct Microsoft Write, and create a 'masterpiece' in Microsoft Paint. Eventually, applications started crashing, but a simple reboot got it working again. All in all, a nice tour through computing history. Anyone have a copy of the first Macintosh OS they want to send me?"
Isn't It Past Time Slashdot Change the MS Icon?? (Score:3, Insightful)
What's the deal with Slashdot still using that Bill Gates Borg icon to represent Microsoft? That icon is so dated on both levels these days. Bill Gates hasn't worked at Microsoft in years, and the Borg reference just is no longer current or relevant. Anyone under 25 would hardly get the references.
You guys just had a redesign, and you still can't deign to use the real Microsoft icon? For gods sake you have the real ones for Facebook and Twitter, it's not like its that hard. If anything, it makes slashdot just look so horribly unfunny and irrelevant.
This is an on-topic meta comment.
Re:Isn't It Past Time Slashdot Change the MS Icon? (Score:5, Insightful)
The point is that it's now passed beyond satire into meta-satire; the satire is mostly on the fact that so many Slashdot commenters bemoan their portrayal as you do. The very reason it's still being used is probably because of that. Honestly, I see more comments complaining about how Slashdotters are always biased against MS than I see comments which are genuinely biased against them.
Re:Isn't It Past Time Slashdot Change the MS Icon? (Score:5, Insightful)
Now THAT is a good idea. Actually does anybody beside me think that Ballmer looks like the monster from Young Frankenstein?
Re:Why the hell is this here? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's nostalgia for those of us that actually used it.
Re:Isn't It Past Time Slashdot Change the MS Icon? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Isn't It Past Time Slashdot Change the MS Icon? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Isn't It Past Time Slashdot Change the MS Icon? (Score:3, Insightful)
They're keeping it solely to piss people like you off. It seems to be working.
Re:I don't think you'll find a copy... (Score:4, Insightful)
>Apparently there was some sort of major bug with 1.0, or memory leak, or something.
There was an article linked to on Slashdot a while back that explained this. Here is the link:
http://technologizer.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-origin-of-windows/ [technologizer.com]
Windows 1.00 was not quite ready to release to the public but they had some obligation to release, so they branded 1.00 as Windows "Premier Edition" and gave that to certain people. Windows 1.01 was apparently the first version to actually hit the store shelves.