[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 07:24:51 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:19 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> >> For shame!  WfW was 3.11,
> >>     
> >
> > 3.1.1,  IIRC
> >   
> 
> actually, there was a 3.10 and 3.11 release of Windows for Workgroups.   
> The 3.11 release introduced the use of 32 bit protected mode 
> implementation of the network stack and file system via extensive use of 
> VxD drivers, and set the stage for Windows95 where almost the whole OS 
> kernel ran in VxD space (prior versions used 16bit realmode IO 
> components from MSDOS).

Anyone ever see wabi running win3.1 under Linux?? THAT was a show
stopper. It came with Caldera's releases. Mighty nifty it was. Ric

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