Happy 34th Birthday, Windows!

Windows 1.0 was released 34 years ago, in November 1985.

It wasn’t much: Just a standard DOS setup (on a single 5.25″, 1.2MB floppy disk) wrapped in a simple point-and-click interface and displayed in CGA 640×200px resolution or Hercules monochrome green or amber.

Windows 1, in all its CGA glory.

This combination of OS and “shell” was primitive, but it could run and display several programs at the same time — something novel then, when most PCs ran single-tasking DOS apps or simple, one-app-at-a-time task switchers.

Man, we were all a lot younger then. 🙂

Bill Gates and Win1.0 in 1985 (via Michael Beschloss Twitter )

You’ve come a long way, Windows…

My Win10 setup simultaneously running 8 other copies of Windows:
Four different Win10 versions/editions, one Win8, one Win7, one XP, and one Win98.

More info:

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/dayintech-1110/#ixzz1627gl8Rt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

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