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Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years (networkworld.com)

9 points by jbrodkin ↗ HN
25 years after it came out, it's still possible to run Windows 1.0 in a virtual machine. While you can't connect to the Internet, you can play Reversi and see the first version of Notepad - which is pretty similar to the one in Windows 7. Here's a look at the first version of Windows.

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barista
Kinda cute but looks more like fed by MSFT PR
ndespres
Looks more like Network World author submitting all his articles to HN.
rmason
I remember Windows 1 and it wasn't that great. I used GEM at the time and it was quite superior to both Windows 1 and 2. I am not quite certain why it failed in the marketplace. Apple sued them for look and feel and it brought updates to a halt and that might have been the reason. I was quite suprised to find that GEM is still around as an open source project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGEM if you want to take a look.
ndespres
"Early versions of Windows also came with "Write," a word processor that had more features than Notepad but was later phased out in favor of Microsoft Word."

Looks to still be there to me, as WordPad. And "write.exe" at the command line still launches it!

"win100.ovl" won't load because it's not an executable program, but part of the Windows startup routine, storing some device drivers for basic hardware (keyboard, mouse, etc).