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what about win 3.1 Thread last updated on 2004-01-21 06:13:32

Posted by member 99398 on 2004-01-15 07:11:05

has anyone ever tried LiteStep on Win 3.1, or windows for workgroups?
Why do that?
Because it would be insanely fast, especially with todays hardware. And one of the things every 1 dislikes about 3.1 is how it looks. This would make a truly liteweight system.
regards Rob

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-01-15 10:04:58 link

yeah, but 3.x can't RUN ANY CURRENT SOFTWARE, so who really cares? besides, I'm pretty sure that ls requires certain dll's/system abilities that aren't present on 3.x.

Posted by member 7 on 2004-01-15 14:08:26 link

With some heavy modifications you might be able to run it with Win32s... but that's about it I guess. There simply isn't enough demand for this; and afaik no dev still has a Win 3.1 setup.
If you want to tackle this I'll be glad to help.

Posted by member 99652 on 2004-01-16 04:32:32 link

Hell of an idea. Keep any updates in the forum. I would like to see how this turns out. I would love to help but i'm not great at programing. So I couldn't help much. But it is still very interesting. So keep us posted.

Posted by member 99398 on 2004-01-19 06:12:54 link

umm, yeah, the 16 an 32 bit stuff is the most valid arguement against, but there are system recovery tools that are either DOS based or 16 bit. And recovery may be a primary role. That said, there are also all those old word procs and such that will also work. Hence, you could have a portable system, on CDROM, with mail and personal folders already configured, that would boot on any system.

Posted by member 101479 on 2004-01-20 06:14:12 link

But the 8+3 char limitations and the unability of reading long filename is such a pain in the posterior.

Posted by member 99 on 2004-01-20 12:49:37 link

You'd have to install it over DOS 7, otherwise you wouldn't even be able to use FAT32 (and drives over 2GB). Supposed that also lets you use long file names, but I doubt it'd work very well.

Posted by member 99398 on 2004-01-21 06:13:32 link

Re Rabid Cow
now thats interesting, and i would never have thought of that, and it resolves some important issues, so thankyou for that. At first i thought it wouldnt work at all, now im not so sure. I have a Dx-2 box with windows for workgroups on it, and with only 8Mb of Ram it is quite fast.