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nickenzi

Hello,
I was liven a link to a ftp site with betas <a>http://www.anotherworld.eu.org/Anonymous_FTP/Lost_SoftWare/Operating_System/Microsoft_Beta/</a> that said it had a 64-bit version of Windows 3.0 (codenamed shorthorn).
I was wondering if this was legit as I couldn't find anything on it in neither wikipedia nor through google. Thanks!

hounsell

nickenzi wrote:

Hello,
I was liven a link to a ftp site with betas <a>http://www.anotherworld.eu.org/Anonymous_FTP/Lost_SoftWare/Operating_System/Microsoft_Beta/</a> that said it had a 64-bit version of Windows 3.0 (codenamed shorthorn).
I was wondering if this was legit as I couldn't find anything on it in neither wikipedia nor through google. Thanks!

Lol, is this serious?

gracz54 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2008 9:38 pm

Haha. Someone played a good joke on you.

WinPC · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2008 10:15 pm

I agree with gracz54. The whole thing is a stupid joke. By the way, I don't think there's such a word as "Shorthorn". I could be wrong, but it seems to just be "Longhorn" with "Long" replaced with "Short".

Kenneth · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2008 10:27 pm

Quote:

64-bit version of Windows 3.0

It's 16-bit.

rws7 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2008 10:55 pm

yes. who would want to run Windows 3.0 on modern machines? That is a stupid joke!

WinPC · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2008 11:35 pm

rws7 wrote:

yes. who would want to run Windows 3.0 on modern machines? That is a stupid joke!

Dirk Makowski (at winhistory.de) once ran Windows 3.1 on a 64 Bit PC for the fun of it. It only booted up in Standard Mode!

XDude · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 1:23 am

wow what a stupid joke, shorthorn

Ludacris · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 9:18 am

Shorthorn existed in MS's heads...

gracz54 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 10:08 am

No, actually it didn't.

Daniel · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 2:11 pm

As far as I know Shorthorn was an update for Windows XP which was planned to be released between Longhorn and Win XP, but it was only a plan from Microsoft, they've never compiled anything...

nickenzi · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 4:55 pm

so is it valid?

hounsell · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 5:09 pm

No. Its a load of crap.

marxo · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 6:44 pm

http://unboxedsolutions.com/sean/archiv ... 8/182.aspx

zdanee · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Tue May 06, 2008 1:52 pm

Probably win 3.x on an Alpha?
Shorthorn still sounds fishy touth.

nickenzi · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 2:49 am

I installed it on my EM64T machine within MS-DOS 6.00 and it identified itself as Windows 3.00. I would have done more poking around with it, but I didn't feel like navigating by keyboard because Windows crashed whenever I told it to use a mouse. I finally just gave up and reformatted it. It did run in 386 Enhanced mode, though.
Oh well. It would've been nice to play with.

Rob Jansen · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 7:31 am

Windows 3 is not made for x64 computers, actions like that can BRAKE your computer.

Stick to XP/Vista and install DOS 6 and Windows 3 into Virtual PC.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is free.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&DisplayLang=en

Vista Ultimate R2 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 10:29 am

I don't think you can break a computer by installing software on it - yes, you'd screw up any copies of Windows that were already on there, but nothing more than that

Pureelite · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 5:58 pm

haha shorthorn

nickenzi · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2008 3:17 am

DjRob wrote:

Windows 3 is not made for x64 computers, actions like that can BRAKE your computer.

Stick to XP/Vista and install DOS 6 and Windows 3 into Virtual PC.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is free.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&DisplayLang=en

sorry about that, i should've clarified first.

I did try it in vpc first, but it crashed whenever i started win.com (probably the mouse issue). That's why I tried it in my pc. I installed on a spare hard drive hooked up to the ide channel. (my vista installation was safe because dos doesn't recognize ntfs partitions and the spare was already formatted with FAT16.)

Rob Jansen · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2008 8:14 am

When using VPC with windows 3.0 you will need to use:

Code:

/r

Then in VPC it works.

In VMWare it works with just win.com without /r.

64-bit Windows 3.0 shorthorn

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