Anybody got a copy of Windows 3.0 (yes 3.0)

There comes a time in everybody's life when they have to .......

swarfega said:

I dont think XP has it. Time to let go of it ?

Alt-Prntscrn apparently! That works in 7 as well.

jimbo45 said:

Windows NT -- even to get the simplest app to work on this took armies of IT support staff -- why on earth corporations loved this server when much better Linux systems were around I will never know.



Cheers
jimbo

Well Windows NT was labelled the most safe from viruses and unhackable OS...




...when it wasn't connected to the Internet

3.1 was bought in a retail box seeing six 3 1/2" floppies while the initial release was on the 5 1/4" 1.2mb type. That was right when 3 1/2" was becoming commom place seeing 1.44mb/2.88mb dual. 95 introduced the cd while still seeing floppies available.

Then you briefly saw the old Zip disk come into play before optical drives included dvd burners over 1x/2x! The larger capacity optical media was the eventual there. And now you see 64gb usb fliash drives and 2tb hard drives available.

jimbo45 said:

Hi guys
... - Windows NT -- even to get the simplest app to work on this took armies of IT support staff -- why on earth corporations loved this server when much better Linux systems were around I will never know.

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Cheers
jimbo

Linux was just being birthed when NT was released. NT was released in mid-1993. Linus started work on Linux in 1991. No large Corp was going to install a non-commercial server OS that early in its infancy. NT was the product of a large and respected software company, and having Dave Cutler's name attached brought a bit of prestige to the OS.

Once corporations attached themselves to NT, moving to a Linux infrastructure was costly. Remember, Windows had an even larger % of the market than it has today. Windows was the future of desktop computing in the enterprise, and so a Windows server made sense.

PhreePhly

Linux was derived from UNIX the much older platform developed at Bell Labs in the late 60s.

THE UNIX ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
Bell Laboratories
http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/expotape.htm

LINUX is a free version of UNIX† that runs on Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium, Intel 80x86, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, Motorola 680x0, Sun SPARC, SGI MIPS, DEC Alpha, HP PA-RISC, DEC VAX, ARM, API 1000+, and CL-PS7110. operating system summaries

Night Hawk said:

Linux was derived from UNIX the much older platform developed at Bell Labs in the late 60s.

THE UNIX ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
Bell Laboratories
http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/expotape.htm

LINUX is a free version of UNIX† that runs on Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium, Intel 80x86, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, Motorola 680x0, Sun SPARC, SGI MIPS, DEC Alpha, HP PA-RISC, DEC VAX, ARM, API 1000+, and CL-PS7110. operating system summaries

Actually, Linux was derived from Minix, not Unix. Trust me, MS was well aware of Unix, and created NT to compete with it. If you read further into the history of Unix, you will see why MS wanted to create its own server OS. Unix was extremely fragmented by the time NT came out. There were questions of ownership, licensing, etc.

While many love to look at "Unix" as the pinnacle of security, it has gone through its own share of being hacked. A properly administered Server 2003 or Server 2008 box is as secure as a properly administered Unix box.

PhreePhly

PhreePhly said:

Actually, Linux was derived from Minix, not Unix. Trust me, MS was well aware of Unix, and created NT to compete with it. If you read further into the history of Unix, you will see why MS wanted to create its own server OS. Unix was extremely fragmented by the time NT came out. There were questions of ownership, licensing, etc.

While many love to look at "Unix" as the pinnacle of security, it has gone through its own share of being hacked. A properly administered Server 2003 or Server 2008 box is as secure as a properly administered Unix box.

PhreePhly

Minux was simply another dirivative of something else like SUN's Solaris Unix base and IBM while MS was the later starter in the OS field following the introduction of 1.0. By then the x86 processor following the 8086, 8088 were making that possible.

Server 2008 would be the thing to be looking at now with that on the way.