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In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a “grabber”?
Windows 3.0 Enhanced Mode introduced the ability to run MS-DOS programs in a virtual machine. This by itself was already quite an achievement, but it didn’t stop there. It also let you put the MS-DOS session in a window, and run it on the screen along with your other Windows programs.
This was crazy.
Here’s how it worked.
↫ Ray
https://www.osnews.com/story/140043/in-windows-3-1-and-windows-95-what-is-a-grabber/
#Windows
Windows 3.0 Enhanced Mode introduced the ability to run MS-DOS programs in a virtual machine. This by itself was already quite an achievement, but it didn’t stop there. It also let you put the MS-DOS session in a window, and run it on the screen along with your other Windows programs.
This was crazy.
Here’s how it worked.
↫ Ray
https://www.osnews.com/story/140043/in-windows-3-1-and-windows-95-what-is-a-grabber/
#Windows