Windows 311


  1. Posts : 7
    windows 7 32bit
       #1

    Windows 311


    Hello !

    I wanted to see if windows 311 would run on the modern hardware that we use today os i took my copy out of storage and gave it a go. Several years ago we put it onto a cd instead of the floppies it was on.

    To make a short story even shorter i could not even get it to start the install. Did not see any ram for one thing. I don't think it can see 1 gig of ram. If i remember correctly ( was a long time ago ) i only had 16 megs which was the largest at the time. It also could not find the hard drives. Just for laughs and giggles i used one of my good machines for this test with 2 500gig and 1 1tb just to see what if anything would happen , i did not expect it to see the drives at all. And it did not surprise me it didn.t.

    So then i pulled out a socket A ( 478 ) with athlon something running at 2 gig on a biostar motherboard. Used a 6.5 gig hard drivea and an old sony cd rom , with a hercules video card. And it started to load/install. It did install but was unstable for some reason !!!. This motherboard used the old smaller ram sticks so i only used 2 32 bits ones that were laying in the parts box.

    But it did install and i was the proud user of a gloriefied file manager. If anyone remembers it only had folders on the desktop. Usb stuff did not work at all , again no surprise. We sat the monitors side by side with that and the windows 7 version and what a difference. i can't believe i thought that 311 was outstanding. Showed it to a colledge it student and he did not even know what it was , lol.

    Anyone have any experience with 311 ?
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  2. Posts : 1,800
    Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
       #2

    Here is windows 3.11 running in a virtual window on my win 7 machine.



    Rich
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  3. Posts : 1,800
    Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
       #3

    and what I get from sevenforums when I try netscape to this sitel.



    Rich
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  4. Posts : 7
    windows 7 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Oh let me look around i think i have the orginal cd netscape sent out around here somewhere. That was the neatest thing back then. Does it still work properly ?

    I also have word perfect for dos someplace do not remember where, have to look for it. That netscape is neat.
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  5. Posts : 1,800
    Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
       #5

    FWIW. I installed wfwg 3.11 from floppies using a usb floppy drives in my win7 machine.

    When I get a new machine, all I do is copy the virtual disk to the new machine in the proper place
    and it all works again. my vhd is only 415 megs in size.



    Rich
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  6. Posts : 3,133
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SP 1
       #6

    Does this bring back memories! The very first computer I ever bought, I believe it was a Packard Bell, had Windows 3.11 installed on it.
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  7. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #7

    Some machines have an OS Install mode where it limits the ram that is used by the OS to 256mb. I used that on a 7 year old dell to put Windows 95 on it (but I didn't keep it as there were no drivers for that machine on Windows 95, plus XP is better)
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