


You can open solitaire and minesweeper, you can fire up MS-DOS, you can play with the calculator or play audio, and you can definitely boot up Netscape and NSCA Mosaic, or mIRC 2.5a or ping/traceroute to your heart’s content. Windows 3.11 definitely works, and all the icons in there click through to the actual programs actually working. 99 m, released about a week ago, on a Windows 7 PC, released in 2009. That’s Netscape 1.0n, released in December of 1994, running inside Windows 3.11, released in August of 1993, running inside of Google Chrome. He wanted this operating system, sitting inside of a browser and running in Javascript, to connect with the outside world. It runs at a good clip, and it has the stuff you’d expect to be in there.īai, tinkerer that he is, was not quite content with that. that it was the “end” of the DOS prompt, although they were seriously off by a number of years.) (When Windows 95 came out, a big deal was made by Gates and Co.

That’s impressive enough on its own right – it’s running inside the EM-DOSBOX system, since Windows 3.x was essentially a very complicated program running inside DOS. Last week, on the heels of the DOS emulation announcement, one of the JSMESS developers, James Baicoianu, got Windows 3.11 running in a window with Javascript.
