Exactly 30 years ago, Microsoft introduced the Windows 3.0 operating system, which featured the legendary Solitaire game that won the hearts of tens of millions of users worldwide. Although Windows 3.0 was essentially just a graphical shell for MS-DOS, it sold more than 10 million copies in just a couple of years, an unprecedented figure for its time.
The system requirements for the operating system were quite modest by modern standards. Windows 3.0 required an Intel 8086/8088 processor or better, 1 MB of RAM, and a whopping 6.5 MB of free disk space. The operating system could only be installed on top of MS-DOS, refusing to work with any other DOS-compatible OS. Despite officially requiring 6.5 MB of disk space, users managed to install it on 1.7 MB floppy disks and run it on computers without hard drives.
The successor to the legendary operating system was Windows 3.1, released in April 1992, which included more features we are accustomed to seeing in modern Microsoft OSes, such as TrueType fonts, an integrated antivirus, and later support for Win32 applications.
Source: 3dnews.ru
