Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
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Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
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Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#2This is a testament to how much trouble Microsoft goes through to maintain compatibility.
I wonder whether malware from those early days would continue to run, or if newer versions of the OS would block it.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#3Looking forward to someone doing the same sort of thing with other OSs.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#4It's like taking every upgrade I've ever done with Windows and condensing it down to 9:49 (omit the various reinstalls)
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#5Impressive, but I have to wonder how many compromises had to be made, and advancements abandoned, to keep apps like Reversi and Dosshell all the way up through Win7...
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Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#7brilliant a testament to MS software compatability
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#8Looking forward to someone doing the same sort of thing with other OSs.
You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors.
Like other commenter said, Windows/MS really goes all the way for backwards compatibility.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#9Now let's see someone do this on real hardware, upgrading the machine as they go.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#10Brilliant.
A number of comments:
* He mentions there is no multi tasking in dosshell. I'm not 100% sure about MS-DOS 5.0, but in ver 6.0 you could switch between tasks in dosshell [EDIT: this is also true for version 5.0, you can see the option at 1:13 in his video]. To switch tasks you need to first enable it through the "Options" menu ("Enable Task Swapper") and then you can either switch tasks by the all too familiar Alt+Tab or pressing Ctrl+Esc to bring up an ancient Task Manager (then titled "Active Task List").
* I may be mistaken, but in later service packs Win2000 had much better DOS emulation... Just mentioning it because he did test XP SP2 and later versions of Win2000 may have handled Doom2 better.
This video got me to dig out my old DOS book to make sure I remember correctly... ah, the memories :) Very interesting to see many dialogs we all know from Windows even in DOS (i.e. the Run and Associate File extension dialogs in dosshell)