   
| Release date: | 1989 |
| Media size: | Seven 720 KB 3.5 inch (DD) floppy disks |
| Installed size: | Less than 1.65 MByte |
| Usability: | Small: no icons for executable programs, no program groups,
no real multitasking, but better than MS-DOS only |
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Start of the Microsoft Windows 286 setup program,
running on a MS-DOS 6.2 operating system. The most modern graphic
card was a VGA adapter with more than 128 KByte RAM,
capable to display 64 colours on a 640*480 pixel resolution.
This is a localized version with German text.
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Specify the installation path for Windows 286
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Support for specialized hardware like the IBM Personal System 2
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Default or autodetected hardware which may be changed, includes
mice, graphic adapter and keyboard layout.
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Manual graphic adapter selection. Support was available for CGA, Hercules,
EGA and VGA and some Plasma-displays of portables.
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Enable support for expansion memory (in old times there were two
ways to work with more than 640 KByte: Expansion Memory and Extended Memory).
Extended Memory could only be used in Protected Mode of the CPU which was
first introduced by the Intel 80286.
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Enable support for printing devices.
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If enabled printing devices, choose one from this list.
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And choose a port for the printing device.
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Support for localization (or internationalization), e.g. different
time, date and number formatting.
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Automated modification of the AUTOEXEC.BAT (a batch-script which
was executed during startup/boot of MS-DOS) to include the path to Windows.
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Support for the MEMSET-program (part of MS-DOS 6.2) and Smartdrive,
a diskcaching-program. Memset optimizes the loading of different drivers and
includes some flags in the CONFIG.SYS.
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Configure expansion memory (none is available) or special
hardware RAM-expansion boards ("chip-graves", memory was built by
a dozens or more small integrated chips).
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The harddisk-name which the system boots from, needed by MEMSET.
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Installation of SMARTDRV.SYS, the diskcache-program.
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Automated modification of the CONFIG.SYS (a system configuration
and device-driver configuration file) to include Smartdrive.
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Finished installation of Windows 286. First in Microsofts
Windows Evolution ever, the system has to be rebooted after installation.
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During startup a warning about changed memory configuration
appeared. The default recommended action is to install Windows again (which
is still the default recommended action to fix bugs in Windows up to now).
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The main view on Windows 286. Nothing has changed compared to
Windows 2.01 - only the base memory-handling has been really improved.
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Microsoft Write 286 with the included example, a letter by
a travel agency.
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The clock, the file-manager and the Reversi-game on one view.
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Microsoft Paint 286, the calculator and the file-manager on
one view.
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The Notepad, the Calendar and the file-manager on one view.
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Say goodbye to Windows 286 using ALT-F4.
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