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Was the operating system use by early versions of windows including 3.1 and windows 3.11?

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What Was the operating system used by early versions of Windows, including Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11?

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The modern versions will not work on DOS. The very early versions did, running through the windows environment before Windows became an operating system. These would be versions like Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 which you would have found on computers in the early 1990s.


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What is the Windows operating system?

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What was the operating system used by early version of Windows including Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11?

dos


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no (false)


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What are the 2 widely used version of the dos?

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