Found 1 record for the .286 file extension name
.gadget - Windows sidebar gadget file
.DS_Store - Macintosh OS X Folder Information
.shs - Microsoft Windows 95/98 clipboard
.sfcache - ReadyBoost cache file
.pf - Windows prefetch file
.ocx - ActiveX control file
.msp - Windows Installer patch file
.pcf - Microsoft Source Profiler profiler command file
file extension 286 - Microsoft Windows virtual device driver
.286File extension 286 description:
Device driver used by Microsoft Windows 3.X in standard mode.
Associated applications to file extension 286:
Company / developer:
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Windows 3.x
Windows 3.0 (1990) and Windows 3.1 (1992) improved the design, mostly because of virtual memory and loadable virtual device drivers (VxDs), which allowed them to share arbitrary devices between multitasked DOS Windows. Also, Windows applications could now run in protected mode (when Windows was running in Standard or 386 Enhanced Mode), which gave them access to several megabytes of memory and removed the obligation to participate in the software virtual memory scheme. They still ran inside the same address space, where the segmented memory provided a degree of protection, and multi-tasked cooperatively. For Windows 3.0, Microsoft also rewrote critical operations from C into assembly, making this release faster and less memory-hungry than its predecessors.
Microsoft also released an update for Windows 3.1 which (aside from installing new files) changes the Windows version displayed in "About" dialog boxes to 3.11. Thus, Windows 3.11 isn't a standalone version of Windows, but rather a software update from Windows 3.1, much like modern Windows service packs. For those who did not own Windows 3.1, full disk sets of Windows 3.11 were available at the time.
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