November 20, 1985 · Software
Windows 1.0 (1985)
A tiled, mouse-driven shell on top of DOS.
Shipped on five 5.25-inch floppies after roughly two years of delay and needed only 256 KB of RAM, though it was tiled rather than overlapping.
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Facts
- Date
- November 20, 1985
- Kind
- Software
- Maker or publisher
- Microsoft
Source: Wikipedia
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Related
- MS-DOS 2.0 (requires, 1983)
- Windows 3.0 (successor, 1990)
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- Koronis Rift Game
- Young Sherlock Holmes Movie
- Compaq Deskpro 286 Computer or hardware
- Dell Turbo PC Computer or hardware
- IBM Model M keyboard Peripheral
- Toshiba T1100 Computer or hardware
- Hayes Smartmodem 2400 Peripheral
- NEC MultiSync Computer or hardware
- The Oregon Trail Game
- Ballblazer Game