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Everything about Windows 3.0
1990 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems, launched on May 22, 1990. It introduces a new graphical user interface (GUI) that represents applications as clickable icons, instead of the list of file names in its predecessors. 3.00a with Multimedia Extensions added capabilities, such as multimedia support for sound recording and playback, and support for CD-ROMs. This is all unified in Windows 3.1. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Windows 3.0A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Asymmetric pore windows in MOF membranes for natural gas valorizationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Mastering today's softwareThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis toolsCited 31,927 times
- Go sideways: TopViewA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DESQviewA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools
Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows
ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
WinGX and ORTEP for Windows : an update
genepop ’007: a complete re‐implementation of the genepop software for Windows and Linux
On the use of windows for harmonic analysis with the discrete Fourier transform
PRIMUS: a Windows PC-based system for small-angle scattering data analysis
An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows
🆕 Influential since 2022
Asymmetric pore windows in MOF membranes for natural gas valorization
Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media
All-weather thermochromic windows for synchronous solar and thermal radiation regulation
Wearable microneedle-based electrochemical aptamer biosensing for precision dosing of drugs with narrow therapeutic windows
An Ultrafast, Energy‐Efficient Electrochromic and Thermochromic Device for Smart Windows
📚 Books worth reading
Mastering today's softwareEdward G. Martin, Charles S. Parker · 1992
Information systems literacyHossein Bidgoli · 1993
Programming .NET 3.5Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz · 2008
Windows 3 quick referenceTimothy S. Stanley · 1990
Das PC-Wissen für IT-BerufeRainer Egewardt · 2000
Mathematik mit dem PCHans Benker · 1994
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