Windows 3.1

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Windows 3.1
Type: Time-sharing
Creator: Microsoft
Multitasking: cooperative with paging (386) / swap (286)
Architecture: i286, i386
Date Released: 1993


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.

v • d • e Microsoft Windows Versions, Vendors and Related
16 bit - Windows 1.0 • Windows 2.0 • Windows 3.0 • Windows 3.1 • Windows 3.2

Hybrid 32/16 bit - win32s • Windows 95 • Windows 98 • Windows ME

32 bit - Windows NT 3.1 • Windows NT 3.5 • Windows NT 3.51• Windows NT 4.0

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