Paintbrush Windows 3.1
PC Paintbrush 3.x (DOS) ZSoft PC Paintbrush is a bitmap drawing program visually similar to MacPaint. The earlier DOS versions were often bundled with Microsoft and Microsoft compatible mice, and were notable for supporting a huge variaty of video adapters. It competed against Mouse Systems (not related despite the similar name). ZSoft PC Paintbrush eventually became Microsoft Paint in Windows 3.0 and later. For Microsoft's rebranded version see and 'PC Paintbrush Plus' includes scanning functionality, and ' adds features for desktop publishing.
Imagine a world without the Start button. No, I'm not talking about Windows 8. Dig deep into your memory, and you may recall a time when Windows 3.1 ruled the Earth. Twenty-five years ago this month, Microsoft released version 3.1 of its MS-DOS graphical-shell-turned-operating-system. Windows 3.1 became the first version of Windows to be widely distributed with new PCs, cementing the dominance of Microsoft's OS on the IBM PC platform and signaling the dawn of the Golden Age of Windows.
In honor of this anniversary, let's take a visual tour through Windows 3.1. In the following slides, I'll highlight many of the innovations this colorful GUI brought to Windows for the first time. The TrueType font system marked the most important visual innovation in Windows 3.1. True Type was actually developed by Apple Computer, which-if you can believe it-licensed the technology to Microsoft for free. Apple didn't want Adobe to monopolize digital type.
Rather than using blocky pixels in a bitmap, TrueType described fonts as curves and lines, which allowed fonts to scale smoothly to any size. This capability produced amazing printed documents, a big reason why Windows 3.1 flourished as a desktop publishing platform. Win 3.1 included 15 fonts with now-familiar names such as Arial, Courier, System, and Times New Roman. Prior to Windows 3.1, if you wanted to save your monitor from CRT burn-in, you either turned it off or installed a third-party screensaver such as After Dark. In version 3.1, Microsoft included four screensavers: Blank Screen (oooh!), Flying Windows (assorted Windows logos soaring by), Marquee (a phrase of your choice scrolling across the screen), and Starfield Simulation (a flight through space, with the stars streaking past). Of course, users could install many more screensavers, which spawned a back-of-the-magazine cottage industry of screensaver plug-ins that functioned more as eye candy than as a genuine means to protect your monitor.
Back in the days of 3.1, you needed only 12 icons in the Control Panel to configure all of Windows; in my Windows 7 Control Panel, I count 52 icons. (Of course, Windows 3.1 took up just 11MB of disk space, versus 23GB for my Windows 7 install-a good indication of the OS's increasing complexity over the years.) Windows 3.1 was the first version of Windows to have a modular Control Panel. You could add new panels to the window shown here simply by copying a special CPL file into the Windows system folder. Windows 3.1 introduced a systemwide means of embedding and linking different types of files together called OLE, short for Object Linking and Embedding. What does that mean?
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For example, you could take a Paintbrush bitmap file and embed it into a Write word processing file, as shown here. But if the bitmap were 'linked' instead, any external changes in the bitmap would be reflected in the Write file.
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We take such functionality for granted these days, but 25 years ago this was a major convenience.