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Windows 3.1 Runs On a Nokia N95, Creating Dangerous Ripple in Space-Time [Cellphones]
i.gizmodo.com - 2/24/2009
Windows 3.1 Runs On a Nokia N95, Creating Dangerous Ripple in Space-Time [Cellphones]
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http://www.frazpc.pl/b/232621 Oh, the beeper-wearing, big-glasses-having software engineers that designed Windows 3.x never could have foreseen this: an industrious young Pole has installed the OS on his futuristic "Enn Ninety-Five" hand-held electronic voice paging device. Technically the ...
osnews.com - 2/24/2009
Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95
— osnews.com — Icon In what can only be called "totally frakking awesome", someone installed Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a... Nokia N95 . By using DOSBox , Polish developer Marcin-PRV was able to install the ageing operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, ... (more) Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95

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Nokia N95 runs Windows 3.1, brings back old memories
mobilewhack.com - 2/24/2009
Nokia N95 runs Windows 3.1, brings back old memories
— mobilewhack.com — A Polish developer going by the handle of Marcin-PRV has done what can only be termed as... useless, if not for a tiny dose of nostalgic introspection when Windows 3.1 brought us the graphic interface that we are so accustomed to today. Using DOSBox, a ... (more) Nokia N95 runs Windows 3.1, brings back old memories

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Windows 3.1 Runs On Nokia N95
ubergizmo.com - 2/24/2009
Windows 3.1 Runs On Nokia N95
— ubergizmo.com — While we know that cell phones these days harness far more computing power than desktops of old,... we guess it has never really sunk in that we would see Windows 3.1 run on the Nokia N95. The installation of Windows 3.1 on this platform is not ... (more) Windows 3.1 Runs On Nokia N95

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Boing Boing Gadgets:  Windows 95 on a Nokia N95

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Windows 95 on a Nokia N95
Boing Boing Gadgets — The hidden secret of Nokia's naming scheme, finally revealed! Can't wait for the NXP! Or, indeed, the Nokia NOSX. [OSNews via Engadget and Gizmodo]

Windows 95 3.1 on a Nokia N95
Boing Boing Gadgets — The hidden secret of Nokia's naming scheme, finally revealed: the model number os ROT-1 on editions of Microsoft Windows. Can't wait for the NVISTA (which shall be Windows XP) [OSNews via Engadget and Gizmodo]

Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95
Boing Boing Gadgets — The hidden secret of Nokia's naming scheme, finally revealed: the model number os ROT-1 on editions of Microsoft Windows. Can't wait for the NVISTA (which shall be Windows XP) [OSNews via Engadget and Gizmodo]

Windows 98 Now Runs on the Nokia N95 [Cellphones]
Gizmodo — Just when you were mildly impressed with the fact that the Nokia N95 ran Windows 3.1, you can now be slightly more mildly impressed that it runs Windows 98 (apparently). [DailyMobile] ...

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