Windows 3.1, every mention
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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 29:42 Steve Ballmer We didn't break the six 40 K barrier until I think Windows 3.1, which I want to say was 91 or 92.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:11 Ben Gilbert It was in Windows one, two, three, three dot one, and Windows for Workgroups, it was a graphical operating environment.
- ▶ 2:50:17 Ben Gilbert Brad led the Windows 3.1 team.
- ▶ 2:51:44 Ben Gilbert And with three dot one, it got really good.
- ▶ 2:52:04 Ben Gilbert I mean, it was 65 people that shipped Windows 3.1.
- ▶ 2:57:55 Ben Gilbert And so, three dot one had users excited, but it was still very early.
- ▶ 2:58:08 Ben Gilbert So, the applications group really had to start doing Windows three dot one.
- ▶ 2:58:39 Ben Gilbert So there's a conceded push to get the OEMs to install three dot one.
- ▶ 3:04:43 Ben Gilbert They just are there for the employee to do their own work on a spreadsheet or something, print it out, because finally, three dot one had printer drivers, and then deliver that map.
- ▶ 3:13:11 Ben Gilbert That a team is gonna work on concurrently while you're figuring out what to do after Windows three dot one.
- ▶ 3:13:39 Ben Gilbert Ok, I think what that basically ends up meaning a few years later is one application programming interface, API, that developers can target so that when they want to write a Windows app, it works on both NT and whatever the evolution of…
- ▶ 3:14:17 Ben Gilbert And so, for many years, they would display very differently on NT systems versus, spoiler alert, Windows 95, the successor to Windows three dot one.
- ▶ 3:16:09 Ben Gilbert This is even before you get plug and play or multimedia or networking like this is on Windows three dot one.
- ▶ 4:09:38 David Rosenthal Restoring a Windows 3.1 machine.
- ▶ 4:10:00 Ben Gilbert So, you know, at some point there will be zero computers out there that can run Windows three dot one that will boot.