On 19/10/2011 10:49, slippyr4 wrote:
> Rubbish. There were quite a lot of differences between windows 3.11 and
> windows 95.  The most obvious and important one was that Windows 95 had
> preemptive multitasking, 3.11 did not. Plug and play was new to 95.

Win 95a multitasking was no difference. Only NT had true pre-emptive=20
multitasking. Win95 (all three main versions) ran on DOS and ran DOS and=20
16 bit applications natively. It was technically impossible for Win95 or=20
win98 to do true pre-emptive multitasking.

Plug and play was largely marketing till a decent amount of stuff was on=20
USB on Win98. Win95 originally didn't have USB. Even today "Plug and=20
play" is an aspiration and not entirely real. Any device that exists=20
AFTER the OS is released needs installed essentially the same way as in=20
1991.  PCMCIA subsystem for win3.x and WFWG 3.11 was "plug  and play" if=20
the PCMCIA device was in the database. This was no different to Win95a.=20
Or indeed to USB today.


You are confusing the differences of Win 3.1 and Win2000 rather than=20
final version of WFWG3.11 and first version of Win95. The Explorer shell=20
and Direct X (to allow easy ports of DOS games, back then "real" windows=20
graphics used GDI, VFW or OpenGL)  where in reality the only major=20
differences. NT4.0  had OpenGL and Win95 didn't have openGL.  In 1995=20
only ported DOS games and some MS demos used Direct X. "Real" windows=20
graphics programming then didn't use it.


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