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Kim Won Young · **Post subject:** Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:52 am

I Seen Screenshots On This Links:
http://toastytech.com/guis/win1983.html

This Version Is Really Exists?

fzajac

Well, it propably is real early prototype of Windows however it hasn't been leaked. I guess the closest we can get is Windows Developer Preview 5 from 1983...

Spider-Vice · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:20 pm

Isn't that DR3 or some other alpha?

Thlump · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:38 am

That is Interface Manager, which would eventually become Windows.

Llamarama2010 · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2010 7:37 pm

I would kill for that version, or at the very least do somthing incredubly unpleasant such as eat a small tree. But alas it is unavailable.

Shame as I would have liked to see the look and feel of it to see which way Windows could have went.

marktuson · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:16 pm

Thlump wrote:

That is Interface Manager, which would eventually become Windows.

No, it's not. The document was called Windows - a Mouse with Modest Requirements if I remember correctly.

I doubt it's DR3 at all, to be honest, unless they actually did go several months between DRs. I'll be betting it's either 1 or 2 if it is a DR, if it's not just a slideshow or slightly-functional-mockup.

Kim Won Young · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:58 am

No. This Is Interface Manager.

marktuson · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:30 am

Oh, really?

I have actually been doing this for a long time. Please give me some credit.

treborpoop

So this may be the first public release of windows?
WOW I am amazed at what it could do.
Thanks for sharing

marktuson

treborpoop wrote:

So this may be the first public release of windows?
WOW I am amazed at what it could do.
Thanks for sharing

No, the first release of Windows that was public was 1.01 (unless Premiere was actually sold, I don't know).
Windows 1.01 (and Premiere) can't do very much, they're just a graphical shell with a crude API and a mouse driver attached. I've played with DR5, Alpha, and Beta, and they're capable of even less: DR5 barely works at all - try and open Notepad and see what I mean; Alpha sort of works but its executable format and API are vastly different from any release version; and Beta looks, feels, and works pretty much like the final versions.

Speaking of Windows Versions of Ancientness, does anyone know of a way to run those DR5, Alpha, and Beta builds on a Linux host? I gave up Windows a couple of years ago now, and running Windows on a VM on Wine seems more like a plant than a plan.

treborpoop

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No, the first release of Windows that was public was 1.01 (unless Premiere was actually sold, I don't know).
Windows 1.01 (and Premiere) can't do very much, they're just a graphical shell with a crude API and a mouse driver attached. I've played with DR5, Alpha, and Beta, and they're capable of even less: DR5 barely works at all - try and open Notepad and see what I mean; Alpha sort of works but its executable format and API are vastly different from any release version; and Beta looks, feels, and works pretty much like the final versions.

Speaking of Windows Versions of Ancientness, does anyone know of a way to run those DR5, Alpha, and Beta builds on a Linux host? I gave up Windows a couple of years ago now, and running Windows on a VM on Wine seems more like a plant than a plan.

treborpoop wrote:

So this may be the first public release of windows?
WOW I am amazed at what it could do.
Thanks for sharing

No, the first release of Windows that was public was 1.01 (unless Premiere was actually sold, I don't know).
Windows 1.01 (and Premiere) can't do very much, they're just a graphical shell with a crude API and a mouse driver attached. I've played with DR5, Alpha, and Beta, and they're capable of even less: DR5 barely works at all - try and open Notepad and see what I mean; Alpha sort of works but its executable format and API are vastly different from any release version; and Beta looks, feels, and works pretty much like the final versions.

Speaking of Windows Versions of Ancientness, does anyone know of a way to run those DR5, Alpha, and Beta builds on a Linux host? I gave up Windows a couple of years ago now, and running Windows on a VM on Wine seems more like a plant than a plan.

thanks for clearing that up

Le Master · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:27 am

The links here left out a couple pages from the Byte article. Here are scans.

The Distractor

Premiere wasn't sold, it was a semi-public beta given to the press, etc.

z180 · **Post subject:** Re: Windows 1.0 1983 Demo **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:04 pm

The name suggests that MS held a "Windows is not vaporware" event and gave out floppies.
I had magazines from 1984 and 1985 that called windows vaporware because it had a lenghtened development cycle.

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