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Keldon

2:49 AM on 6 November, 2008

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I still have my 3.1 floppies :) as well as a stack of various dos versions, all hand me downs from my dad :)

was a great os in its day but after win 95 I have never looked back!

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ilovethemonkeyhead

7:59 AM on 6 November, 2008

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oh wow. i would like to have seen it on a netbook, you know, as a low power option, to give people a day's worth of battery life, just to type stuff.

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Steve

8:42 AM on 6 November, 2008

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It makes you think how unnecessarily large installs are these days doesn't it! The ridiculous size of Vista & MS Office immediately leaps to mind...

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Darfuria

9:38 AM on 6 November, 2008

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Awh, nostalgic memories of playing Castle of the Winds.

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Pbryanw

12:31 PM on 6 November, 2008

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Does this mean, I can no longer upgrade my Vista installation to 3.1?

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Xiphias

12:49 PM on 6 November, 2008

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While it had it's peculiarities it's still generally the best looking windows version, I'd love to replace aero with a high resolution modern version of it.

@Steve: unnecessarily? So which bits of vista do you deem unnecessary?

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Steve

2:48 PM on 6 November, 2008

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Their coding is pants, hence the bloated install sizes

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ffrankmccaffery

5:19 PM on 6 November, 2008

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xiphias: i agree with you about the beauty of this os, the icons were designed by the legendary susan kare who was also responsible for the artwork of the early macs

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66vs87

1:52 AM on 7 November, 2008

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@Xiphias & @ffrankmccaffery

Seriously? There's a reason people use the phrase "but it's so three-one-one looking" to describe an ugly application. And surely Aero *is* a "high-res modern version" of it??

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Xiphias

1:20 PM on 7 November, 2008

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@66vs87: Well it did have some exceptionally ugly bits (the desktop settings for example), there are some screenshots here: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win31

Vista is completely different visually, by modern high-res version I meant leave it mostly how it is but add new up to date and scaleable icons in the same style and maybe tweak the interface a little.

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Gordon394

4:14 PM on 7 November, 2008

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@Pbryanw - genius! Pure and simple...

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