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Windows 3.1 VM Loads in 0.5 Seconds

Lack of network connectivity ends this experiment right here

Somewhere I found images of the Windows 3.1 installation floppies, so I decided to see how fast 3.1 loads in a virtual machine.

I thought this would be a simple task, until I realized there wasn’t much I could do with the 3.1 floppies until DOS was installed on something. I located DOS 6.22, installed it in a VM, then installed Windows 3.1 on top.

When the machine was done, Windows loaded in half a second. Lack of network drivers, however, ends the experiment right here.

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2 Responses to “Windows 3.1 VM Loads in 0.5 Seconds”

  1. dblackshell Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    not much could be expected from windows 3.1 because it isn’t actually a OS… it’s more of a DOS UI…. it’s like X.ORG is for LINUX/BSD/etc

  2. Gerk Says:
    March 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am

    If you dig around a bit there are both working network and video card drivers out there for running win 3.1.1 in a VM. It’s amazing how fast it all is :)

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