#Windows2
🎩🚀 Oh joy, someone ported Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi, because apparently, the 1980s called and they want their obsolete tech back. Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy worrying if our computers can even handle the latest Chrome update without bursting into flames. 🔥💾
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/ #Windows2 #ApricotPC #technostalgia #retrocomputing #Chromeupdate #HackerNews #ngated
Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/
#HackerNews #Windows2 #ApricotPC #Xi #RetroComputing #TechHistory
@nina_kali_nina by the way ...
the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE
The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.
But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv
#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2
@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon
I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do
@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.
I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.
Alt+Escape continues to be weird one — not Ctrl+Escape — that basically switches apps immediately to this day; but before the Start Bar and Dock, this was just a way to rearrange the egg-form of your running applications.
Today's Alt+Escape is a little bit like Cmd-` (backtick) on Mac, except that's for rotating within apps
Windows 2.x: How to Close a Window
There will be a test.
Mac users should be able to figure this one out.
Windows 2.x still thought it "knew better" than Mac when it came to keyboard shortcuts …
Undo: Alt+Backspace
Cut: Shift+Delete
Copy: Ctrl+Insert
Paste: Shift+Insert
1990 would change that. Of course, the option-key shortcuts that Mac started in 1984 … ? Still waiting.
Dos meses después Apple afirmó que Microsoft había infringido 1700 de sus derechos de Copyright pero la corte dijo que el acuerdo otorgaba a Microsoft el derecho a utilizar todos excepto 9 de los derechos de Apple
El 9 de diciembre de 1987, Microsoft lanza la segunda versión de su entorno operativo Windows.
Contaba con una interfase de 16 bits y sucedida por Windows/286 y Windows/386 y comenzó a ser popular debido a las nuevas aplicaciones que incluía Excel y Word para Windows.
Se distribuía en 9 disquetes de 5.25” de 360 Kb. o 5 disquetes de 3.5” de 720 Kb. Se lanzó en esta fecha para coincidir con el aniversario de la “Madre de todas las Demos”.
#retrocomputingmx #Microsoft #windows2
Aand that's Win 2.11/386. The fun here is that PCem's emulated mouse was not used by Win/386. In fact, Windows killed the DOS mouse (Xtree had been using it). On the 2nd installation, I selected a PS/2 mouse, and this time the mouse survived.
I used my little DOS 3.3 box, but upgraded the board to a 386sx clone with 4 Mb memory. This time I see emulated expanded memory in Windows.
Lots of old lessons came back to me during this exercise. Which ... is why I did it.
Windows 2.11/286 up and running.
I had trouble configuring extra memory, and disallowed SMARTDrive, but hey, there was this fancy new thing called "HIMEM.SYS" that may be kinda handy in future. Paint couldn't write its temp files till I manually reassigned TEMP from C:\TEMP to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP but 🤷♂️.
I'm done with my DOS 3.3/80286 toy. Windows 2.11/386 needs a gruntier machine.
Dinner thought: I wonder which is faster, a 2024 SSD or 1985 RAM?
