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A developer got Word 1.1a from 1990 to run on Windows 11 - try it yourself
Longing for a plain, old-fashioned version of Microsoft Word without all the bells, whistles, and AI slop? One developer managed to coax Word 1.1a to run on today's Windows.
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Microsoft Word 1.1a for Windows Goes Native x64: A Retro Port for the Ages
In 2026, a developer's heroic binary-level port brought the 1989-era Microsoft Word 1.1a to native 64-bit Windows, sparking spirited Hacker News debates on retro computing,…
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x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11
The Computer History Museum made the Word 1.1a source code publicly available in 2014, now it has been ported to 64-bit Windows.
