Windows 3.11
It’s incredibly geeky, but I’m super excited about recently having installed Windows 3.11 in a virtual machine (Microsoft Virtual PC 2007).
Originally, I needed to get it running for a friend / co-worker who needed to run a program that (supposedly) only runs in Windows 3.11. I figured it would be cool to get it running anyway, and I was able to install MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on top of it.
I also got Internet Explorer 5 running, but it crashes if I try to access modern web sites. Even Google doesn’t support it correctly! Now if only I could find a way to install Firefox on it…
Another cool thing is that I’m able to access a Samba (Windows) share I set up on the virtual machine, so I’m able to move files between it and my Windows Vista installation from within Windows Vista. Unfortunately, Windows 3.11 doesn’t know how to supply username and password combos to more modern Samba servers (or, at least, I don’t know how to do that).
Anygeek who wants instructions–just let me know!
