Windows 3.x is Officially History
by Derek.Yang on 05/11/08 at 12:26 pm
It has been a journey of 18 years but on November 1st 2008, Microsoft stopped issuing licenses for its Windows 3.x operating system. For those of us old enough to remember the early 90’s, Windows 3.x was the first series of graphical operating systems to be released by Microsoft. Windows 3.x paved the way for Microsoft’s domination and was commonly heralded as a great success. For me, it was the operating system on my first computer. A look back at the minimum requirements to run Windows 3.x revealed a much different time in computing capacity. Windows 3.x required a CPU with clock speed of 10MHz, 640KB of RAM, 7 MB of hard disk space, CGA, EGA and VGA graphics enabled graphics card. Microsoft’s Windows Vista Home Edition requires a 32-bit 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 20GB of hard drive space, and a 32MB graphics card! A word of caution for those feeling nostalgic, feel free to install Windows 3.x just don’t go on the internet as it is not sophisticated enough to ward off today’s cyber attacks.
-Derek
[Source:BBC]
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