Comments on: Windows for Workgroups 3.11 https://dfarq.homeip.net/windows-for-workgroups-3-11/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=windows-for-workgroups-3-11 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hatse Flats https://dfarq.homeip.net/windows-for-workgroups-3-11/#comment-56724 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:27:07 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36552#comment-56724 3.11 was slow and bloated compared to 3.1
It also crashed more frequently depending on which drivers were needed.
I had issues with a simple serial mouse driver and went back to 3.1

There hasn’t been a release that was smaller and faster than the previous version… Ever.

]]> By: Shirley Marquez https://dfarq.homeip.net/windows-for-workgroups-3-11/#comment-56708 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:23:30 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36552#comment-56708 If you were around in the early days of the World Wide Web, the network access in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was a huge improvement over what came before. It was included in the box, and was far more reliable than the Trumpet Winsock that most people had been using before that. It also supported Ethernet and TCP/IP out of the box, which was great for an office network. At the time, most people were using Netscape 1.0 (and then later versions) rather than a Microsoft browser.

All of the browsers you can run on WfW 3.11 are hopelessly obsolete by modern standards. But they were great for the web sites of 1994 through 1996 or so. After that, everybody who could migrated to Windows 95; 32 bit applications were faster and more stable than 16 bit applications, especially for applications that demanded a lot of memory (by the standards of the day) like web browsers were becoming.

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