That screenshot surely looks a little funny. That’s because it is Windows 1.04 running with a heavily modified 256-color Windows 3.x display driver, using resources from a Windows 2.0 VGA driver.
Yes, a video driver for Windows 1.0x that can run at high resolutions. Madness.
The only time I ever ran Windows 1.0(3 i think) it would run for no longer than maybe 30 seconds and then lock up. I assume there was something about the timing on the newer computer that messed it up. It was merely a morbid curiosity…
UGH!!! I remember Windows 1 in 1992 or 93 and it was … imagine ONE window. It shouldn’t have been called, “WindowS” because there was only one Window at a time and it was SLOW and it was BUGGY and I literally felt like MS was playing a practical joke on us by letting us test it.
Windows 2 was twice as good as Windows 1 which was a REALLY, REALLY, R E A L L Y low bar to start with. Okay, maybe three times as good but again, starting from a very low bar. They finally got a product that was better than DOS was which was great but nothing was better than WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS until WordPerfect 4 or Word 8.
By the way, if you ever used Word for DOS, it didn’t display things WYSIWIG (What you see is what you get). For instance, if you had two columns. If the two columns were to be side by side they would show on your screen as.
Column 1 line 1
Column 1 line 2
and so forth and then
…………………………………………… Column 2 line 1
……………………………………………Column 2 line 2
……………………………………………Column 2 line … and so forth (pretend the dots don’t exist but I can’t give you visuals with Column 2 on the Right without them.
But when you printed them out, Columns 1 and 2 would print side by side. Great product … NOT!
And then Windows came along and Microsoft hid all the fast APIs from every company not named Microsoft so that they had an unfair advantage. That is when Microsoft should have been split up into an OS company and an Apps company and they should have gotten HUGE fines if they were sharing information between them that they weren’t sharing with everyone else.