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WINDOWS 3.1

Specialty Definition: WINDOWS 3.1

Domain	Definition
Computing	Windows 3.1 A version of Microsoft Windows with many improvements over Windows 3.0, including True Type Fonts, Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and Mouse Trails for use with LCD Devices. It also saw the loss of Real Mode, which meant it would no longer run on Intel 8086 processors (did anyone ever do this anyway?). Sometimes described as "stand-alone Windows", in contrast to Windows for Workgroups 3.1. Windows 3.11 is a free bug-fix update. 3.1's successors are Windows 95 and Windows NT. (1996-07-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: WINDOWS 3.1

Specialty definitions using "WINDOWS 3.1": 386SPART.PAR ♦ Blue Screen of Death ♦ heatseeker ♦ memory protection, Microsoft Windows ♦ plug-in, Procomm ♦ Scheme-to-C ♦ universal thunk ♦ WDASM, Windows 3.11, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT. (references)

Commercial Usage: WINDOWS 3.1

Domain	Title
Books	Acumen: DOS 6.2 Essentials, Windows 3.1 Essentials, Word 6.0 for Windows, Excel 5.0 for Windows, Access 2.0 for Windows (Acumen Series) (reference) Novell Perfect Office: DOS 6.2, Windows 3.1, Wordperfect 6.1, Quattro Pro 6.0, Paradox 5.0 (Acumen Series) (reference) Windows 3.1 (Acumen) (reference) Windows 3.1 Insider (Coriolis Group Book) (reference) Windows 3.1 Walkabout: The Fastest and Easiest Way to Learn 3.1/Book and Disk (reference) (more book examples)
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Anagrams: WINDOWS 3.1

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters ".-1-3-d-i-n-o-s-w-w"
	-3 letters: windows.
	-4 letters: disown, indows, widows, window.
	-5 letters: downs, indow, widow, winds, winos.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: WINDOWS 3.1

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 49 4E 44 4F 57 53 33 2E 31

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01001001 01001110 01000100 01001111 01010111 01010011 00100000 00110011 00101110 00110001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#78 &#68 &#79 &#87 &#83 &#32 &#51 &#46 &#49

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 004E 0044 004F 0057 0053 0033 002E 0031

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

574348384957532211619

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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