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Revision as of 15:16, 23 August 2009


Windows 3.1
Type: Time-sharing
Creator: Microsoft
Multitasking: cooperative with paging (386) / swap (286)
Architecture: i286, i386
Date Released: 1992


Windows 3.1 introduced several new technologies onto the Windows 3.0 platform. The most notable was True type fonts, and OLE. The 'real mode' was removed, as Windows 3.1 now executed in protected mode only.

Windows 3.1 is more of an 'enviroment' then an operating system, as it still uses MS-DOS for some functions, and the 386 enchanced mode spawns VDM's with MS-DOS.