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First post, by ncmark

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I need someone to talk some sense into my head. I snagged a bunch of books from a retiring computer science professor. Among them were some old Windows 3.1 programming books ... Windows 3.1 Intern was one.

Are these worth studying or keeping? On one had, it's kind of interesting to go back and see how it was done "the hard way." But didn't MFC and the later versions of Visual C++ pretty make all that obsolete?

I have Vsual C++ 5 and am tending to think spending time on that is much less of a waste of time. On the other hand, I know that even that is very dated if not obsolete itself.

Reply 1 of 4, by Joey_sw

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if theres exist how to make device driver for win 3.1, it might worth it.
perhaps for special drivers for win3.x that run under dosbox.

-fffuuu

Reply 2 of 4, by cdoublejj

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it would be worth keeping a small handfull for shits and giggles to see how things used to be.

Reply 3 of 4, by rfnagel

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I would definitely keep them for historical value.

One hardbound book that I have in my collection is "Modem Handbook for the Communications Professional", circa 1986... it's a hoot to read all of the "new developments" in that book <grin> 😀 They even mention "Milgo", where I used to work in the early '80s 😀

Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel
http://www.richnagel.net

Reply 4 of 4, by ncmark

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Well every time I make up my mind to throw them away - seems like I just can't do it...

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