Starting in the 1990s, Windows NT ushered in a new architecture that has been carried forward more or less intact ever since. Current client version of Windows. Windows is a 64-bit OS and runs only on ...

I’m glad I never have to watch that Windows 386 video again, but this MS-DOS 5 promo video is just as bad. If not worse. Okay, it’s probably worse. [YouTube ...

It is not superscalar. At all. The Pentium family introduced that feature. The 386 doesn't have cache either so you'd have to pull some interesting stunts to feed the pipeline anyway. Sort of like the ...

Examining the changes from Windows 1, to 2, to 2.1, to 3, almost uniquely, it explains why things changed, and what was happening in the industry, especially around GUIs, to permit or cause them to ...

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In the beginning was the MS-DOS Executive. That was the name of a small program that ran on top of MS-DOS 3, let you zip around lists of filenames, and run one by pressing Enter or clicking on its ...

The primary mode for Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups. It used the 386's virtual capabilities, and DOS applications could be multitasked in the background and run in resizable windows. (Win 3.x, ...