The Dos 6 / Win 3.x1 files have here KWAJ.
Looking in an DOS 5.x or Win3.x0 distro file, one sees the signature letters SZDD. The first element is to deal with the fact that both PC-DOS / MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 are compressed in the distribution. None the same, these are more cosmetic changes, rather than real things. You should be able to access MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.10 as well, because we will borrow from both of these. Initial tests with W310, W311 and W331 suggest that W331 requires the least modifications, and this version is fairly accessable to many users. One subject to be added is help on the Progman DDE interface. Eventually, we will get around to recompiling help files, to add in extra information. The further idea is to see if we can support something like standard mode in Windows 3.11.įor as much as possible, the process is not merely to produce a 3.31 distro, but to see if much of the original can be reproduced, including compression, etc. wfw 310 (w330) is also cheerfully dubbed "Windows for Warehouses", because it was slower than Windows 3.10 or either of the 3.11 stock. There really was a wfw 310 and an win 311, but neither of these were mainstream.
The base versions of Windows are abbreviated thus: So this is not merely some theoretical exercise, but a day-to-day OS. A custom build of windows has been used as the main OS since about 1994 to 1998 (when win31 dominated the desktop). This is not the first time this experiment has been conducted. Still, doing this gives a ready-made custom Windows with patches installed. The Windows 3.11 resource kit (reskit31.exe) gives extensive details on this, so we're really following what MS has documented. In essence, while we are trying to keep with the original windows, most of the thing is getting a modern makeover.
I decided to rebuild a copy of Windows 3.11 with all of the latest mod cons etc.
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