Windows 2
Windows 1.0 was the first release of what eventually made it onto almost every desktop computer in the entire world. Many of you are probably unaware of this release from 1985; concieved from ideas found in the original Macintosh (1984) and Xerox Star system, Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's attempt at a graphical multitasking operating system for the IBM PC.
Effectively a frontend to MS-DOS, Windows 1.0 could run multiple DOS based applications, along with applications developed with the native, then new Windows API. Since Microsoft has a design goal of backwards compatability, a large amount of applications targeted towards Windows 1.0 will run on modern 16-bit or 32-bit versions of Windows with no issues, and a large subset of applications can be recompiled targeting modern versions with few code changes.
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