Microsoft Windows - Revision history

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‎See also: +Microsoft Windows v3.0 Debug Release 1.14

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2019-08-14T13:41:12Z

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ForOldHack: /* added modes to 386 */

2019-04-11T07:10:53Z

‎added modes to 386

ForOldHack: /* Article cleanup. */

2019-04-10T18:54:12Z

‎Article cleanup.

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+cat

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Proper cat, +links

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-'''Microsoft Windows''' is a set of popular [[operating environment]]s beginning in the 1980s; the name also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
+'''Microsoft Windows''' was a set of popular [[operating environment]]s, beginning in the 1980s; the name was also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
 The first two generations of Windows ran on top of [[MS-DOS]]. 16-[[bit]] [[real mode]] versions include 1.0.x and 2.0 for the 286 and 386.
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-'''Microsoft Windows''' is a set of popular [[operating environment]]s beginning in the 1980s. and the name also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
+'''Microsoft Windows''' is a set of popular [[operating environment]]s beginning in the 1980s; the name also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
 The first two generations of Windows ran on top of [[MS-DOS]]. 16-[[bit]] [[real mode]] versions include 1.0.x and 2.0 for the 286 and 386.
-[[Windows 386]] v2.0.x included the 386 Virtual Machine Mode (VMM), effectively a type 2 [[hypervisor]] on top of MS-DOS for running 8086 [[virtual machine]]s via the v86 mode feature of the [[Intel 80386|386 processor]].
+[[Windows 386]] v2.0.x included the 386 Virtual Machine Mode (VMM), effectively a type 2 [[hypervisor]] on top of MS-DOS for running 8086 [[virtual machine]]s via the v86 mode feature of the [[Intel 80386|386 processor]]. Windows itself was still a 16-bit real mode program, even running on the 386 VMM.
 -bit [[protected mode]] versions of Windows include 3.0 and 3.1.  While capable of running on the 386, Windows itself was a 16-bit program, unable itself to exploit any 386 features, except for processor robust version of [[virtual memory]], and a Virtual-86 mode.
 -bit hybrid protected/real mode versions include 95, 98 and Me.

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 '''Microsoft Windows''' is a set of popular [[operating environment]]s beginning in the 1980s. and the name also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
-The first two generations of Windows ran on top of MS-DOS. 16-[[bit]] [[real mode]] versions include 1.0.x and 2.0 for the 286 and 386.
+The first two generations of Windows ran on top of [[MS-DOS]]. 16-[[bit]] [[real mode]] versions include 1.0.x and 2.0 for the 286 and 386.
-Windows 386 v2.0.x included the 386 Virtual Machine Mode (VMM), effectively a type 2 [[hypervisor]] on top of [[MS-DOS]] for running 8086 [[virtual machine]]s via the v86 mode feature of the 386 processor.
+[[Windows 386]] v2.0.x included the 386 Virtual Machine Mode (VMM), effectively a type 2 [[hypervisor]] on top of MS-DOS for running 8086 [[virtual machine]]s via the v86 mode feature of the [[Intel 80386|386 processor]].
--bit [[protected mode]] versions of Windows include 3.0 and 3.1.  While capable of running on the 386, Windows itself was a 16-bit program, unable itself to exploit any 386 features, except for processor robust version of Virtual memory, and a Virtual-86 mode.
+-bit [[protected mode]] versions of Windows include 3.0 and 3.1.  While capable of running on the 386, Windows itself was a 16-bit program, unable itself to exploit any 386 features, except for processor robust version of [[virtual memory]], and a Virtual-86 mode.
 -bit hybrid protected/real mode versions include 95, 98 and Me.
-Pure 32bit versions are the NT based versions of Windows NT, including NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003r2, 2008, Vista, 2008r2, 7, 2012, 8, 2012r2, 8.1
+Pure 32bit versions are the NT based versions of [[Windows NT]], including NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003r2, 2008, Vista, 2008r2, 7, 2012, 8, 2012r2, 8.1
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 Windows 386 v2.0.x included the 386 Virtual Machine Mode (VMM), effectively a type 2 [[hypervisor]] on top of [[MS-DOS]] for running 8086 [[virtual machine]]s via the v86 mode feature of the 386 processor.
--bit [[protected mode]] versions of Windows include 3.0 and 3.1.  While capable of running on the 386, Windows itself was a 16-bit program, unable itself to exploit any 386 features.
+-bit [[protected mode]] versions of Windows include 3.0 and 3.1.  While capable of running on the 386, Windows itself was a 16-bit program, unable itself to exploit any 386 features, except for processor robust version of Virtual memory, and a Virtual-86 mode.
 -bit hybrid protected/real mode versions include 95, 98 and Me.

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-'''Microsoft Windows''' is the popular [[operating enviroment]]s of the late 1980's, and 1990's and the name also given to the NT project.
+'''Microsoft Windows''' is the popular [[operating enviroment]]s of the late 1980's, and 1990's. and the name also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
 -[[bit]] [[real mode]] versions include 1.0 and 2.0. Windows/386 included the 386 VMM mode, effectively a type 2 [[hypervisor]] on top of [[MS-DOS]] for running 8086 [[virtual machine]]s via the v86 mode feature of the 386 processor.  Windows itself was still a 16-bit real mode program, even running on the 386 VMM.
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