From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   On 23.07.2021 13:27, antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote:   
      
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   > Little correction and addition: there was period when Windows   
   > supported 8086, 286 and 386.  Windows applications were   
   > supposed to run on all those machine.  So there is body of   
   > application that run on 8086 with ability to use more memory.   
   > You prefer DOS, so probably this is of no interest to you.   
   > But this shows that it was known how to do this and it got   
   > some use.  OTOH I never saw Windows running on 8086.   
   > I saw guy running Windows on 1 M 286.  Guy was satisfied   
   > that it run at all, my opinion was that it was unusable   
   > slow.  I remember that when Microsoft anouced that   
   > Windows no longer supports 8086, there was a comment   
   > that programmers are very satisfied, trying to make   
   > programs run on 8086 was pain with little reward.   
      
   I once had an i286 IBM, 1MB + 2.5MB add on card.   
   windoze 1, 2, 3.0..3.2 didn't do any good, the first working M$ for 286   
   was version 3.3 and there were also a (sure stolen) working office pack   
   [Harvard Graphic, Lotus123, WORD].   
      
   8086/88 were just playground for early DOS versions but never succeeded.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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