Post subject: 64-bit Windows 3.0 shorthorn Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:08 pm
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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!
Post subject: Re: 64-bit Windows 3.0 shorthorn Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:42 pm
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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!
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".
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...
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.
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
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.)
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