End of an Era!!

[buzzard]

I didn't realise windows 3.x was still around!!!!

 

BBC NEWS | Technology | The end of an era - Windows 3.x

[matt40k]

£20 says they move away from Windows to a BSD.

 

No idea they were still selling it!! 95 is long dead, which is the min requirement for using a licensed Vista upgrade.

[buzzard]

would you trust 3.1 to run anything on a airplane???

[sparkeh]

would you trust 3.1 to run anything on a airplane???

 

It runs the brains of EasyJet staff.

[matt40k]

Yes.

No USB support, no internet.

[Sylv3r]

When I went to America earlier this year, my tetris kept crashing and booting me into Windows 3.1 on the inbuilt entertainment system.

[Friez]

Yes.

No USB support, no internet.

 

More importantly, barely anyone writes viruses for 3.1 these days. It's all win32 stuff tbh!

 

A lot of companies still use old computers/OS because of reliability reasons!

[gshaw]

Just think of the boot times on new PCs the OS would be running faster than the user

 

Google for the Windows 1.0 boot floppy... great for a practical joke to send someone's PC back to 1985

[wizzard]

It runs the brains of EasyJet staff.

 

Care to elaborate on your experience?