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By Tim Ferguson
Published: 10 December 2008 11:46 GMT
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As can be seen above, the 16-bit Windows 1.0 featured tiled windows and a graphical user interface - a significant change from previous PC OSes such as MS-DOS, which still used C prompt commands.
Another new feature was that users could run several applications at the same time including the MS-DOS file management program, a calendar, calculator, clock and notepad.
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