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Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life.

On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.

The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s, were the first of Microsoft's graphical user interfaces to win huge worldwide success.

LinkWell folks - having enjoyed 3.11 Workgroups back in mid 90's on a DX4-66 - this is sad news. Tho I had thought the OLD dinosaur was long dead anyways!

I still have a set of floppies for this venerable OS - and that running with PC Tools was not bad at all. Dear old file manager - used to like that!Yeah I was a little surprised by this article as well assumed that 3.x died long ago. I guess it was the support and sales of 3.x that died a long time ago. Think this is the last nail in the coffin.Tell ya what ...... GIVEN that I still had my old DX4-66 running (got the old case somewhere) - I'd still play with that just for fun. Got the HDDs still too.

I managed to run at 1024x768 on a crappy 14' mon and with a Trust sound card had almost as much useful function as I do now! Well - nearly!

What I remember best was back then - upgrading my 8 Mb of RAM to 16 - at vast expense - I guess around $250 - $300!! My two HDD's almost added up to (wait for it) - yeah - 1Gb!!!!

OH the good ol days. HA! I still have a Thinkpad running PC-DOS 7 and Windows 3.11


absolutely no problems, except once I needed to run SYS on C: again.

which is amazing- according to chkdsk- it was last formatted in 1996!

a 12 year run with a hard drive! And still PUTTING along well too!Wow that is an impressive story. A 12 year run for any computer is amazing. Do you use it that much?not anymore- it's previous owner used it a lot judging from the e-mails and so forth I had to purge when they gave it to me. Mostly for Qbasic programming and NES emulation, if anything. Don't even usually start windows very often, come to think of it. I BELIEVE it's just slightly over a GB.

One caveat- the adapter is broken and I am forced to use the docking station to use the computer. computer-component wise all is well, though.I have Windows for Workgroups installed on my benchtest machine...i visit once a week.
Zero issues.
And it's still fun to play around with ! !