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Windows 3.1 is officially retired

On the 1st of November 2008, Microsoft officially stopped issuing licenses for the software the made its debut in 1990.

The various versions of Windows 3.x were very popular as they were the first of Microsoft’s operating systems that had a Graphical User Interface. Microsoft maintained support for Windows 3.x until the end of 2001, and it has lived on as an embedded operating system until 1 November 2008 – mostly used on some of the Virgin Atlantic and Quantas long haul flights to power the in-flight entertainment systems.

Orginal Windows 3.1 specs

The specs of Windows 3.1 are something to behold:

Windows 3.x required an 8086/8088 processor or better that had a clock speed of up to 10MHz. It needed at least 640KB of RAM, 7 megabytes of hard drive space, and a graphics card that supported CGA, EGA and VGA graphics.

Rest in Peace Windows 3.1.

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