I worked extensively with Windows 2 back in the day.
Possibly even with Windows 1.0 I can't quite recall.
It was a constant battle to get enough RAM for applications to run. Futzing around with himem.sys and moving around network drivers and stuff in high memory.
Windows applications had to run within the first 640K of RAM. In reality, around that time most corporate machines were 80286 machines and as I recall a high specced machine usually had 2MB RAM.
Kinda weird to think that working, useful Windows applications ran on systems with that little memory.
Possibly even with Windows 1.0 I can't quite recall.
It was a constant battle to get enough RAM for applications to run. Futzing around with himem.sys and moving around network drivers and stuff in high memory.
Windows applications had to run within the first 640K of RAM. In reality, around that time most corporate machines were 80286 machines and as I recall a high specced machine usually had 2MB RAM.
Kinda weird to think that working, useful Windows applications ran on systems with that little memory.
Ugh I'm glad those days are gone.