Yes, Windows for workgroups 3.11 came before windows 3.11. WFWG was meant for buisness and the other version was meant for home use. Microsoft did not plan do do a home version of 3.11 but the stability of 3.1 was just too horrible to get away with. It was the worst of all windows versions with multiple crashes a day.
I'm not sure what Justin meant by "standard mode" but if you mean windows on top of dos, Bill lied when he said that windows 95 did not use dos. In fact, their is a method of seperating dos 7 out of windows 98 and installing windows 3.X so you can run either on the same partition.
Standard mode, this comes from an OS programer, is a non-protected mode OS. Protected mode is something that was added on to a 386 CPU. It allows General Protection faults and linear registers. Un-Real mode aka Standard Mode is across from real and Protected mode. the registers are not all messed up so, it can still use BIOS interrupts, but the A20 line, or upper memory, is usable. This worked sort of, but is very unreliable.
Microsoft did not plan do do a home version of 3.11 but the stability of 3.1 was just too horrible to get away with. It was the worst of all windows versions with multiple crashes a day.
Worst of all windows versions.... I thought ME would be higher up then 3.1, but yes WFWG was more stable.
no i think that would be you, this topic is OLD, you shouldn't post to old topics unless you can add new and usful information, saying that its out of hand is not usful information
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i think Q's gone crazy lol
I'm not sure what Justin meant by "standard mode" but if you mean windows on top of dos, Bill lied when he said that windows 95 did not use dos. In fact, their is a method of seperating dos 7 out of windows 98 and installing windows 3.X so you can run either on the same partition.
Enhanced is like a multitasknig extension of it.
Worst of all windows versions.... I thought ME would be higher up then 3.1, but yes WFWG was more stable.
Real = Sub 386 days
Standard = 386
Enhanced = 486
-Q
1. Windows 3.10
2. Windows for Workgroups 3.10
3. Windows for Workgroups 3.11
4. Windows 3.11
Of these, Wfw 3.10 was so slow, that it was dubbed 'windows for warehouses', such that it might idle its times on warehouse shelves.
Windows 3.11 was released mainly as an OEM release, basically a reduced and repacked version of Windows 3.10.
All of these will run in standard mode, given the necessary files. These necessary files were included in all versions except wfw311.
Since some people dislike old threads being brought up, you may wish to review the dates to ensure you're not giving advice to someone who asked a question two years ago.
-Q
No... WFWG ran only in 386 Enhanced mode. 3.11 regular was the last to run Standard. And 3.0 was the last to run Real mode.