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.
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. 🙂
You’ve come a long way, 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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