"Early versions of Windows also came with "Write," a word processor that had more features than Notepad but was later phased out in favor of Microsoft Word."
Looks to still be there to me, as WordPad. And "write.exe" at the command line still launches it!
"win100.ovl" won't load because it's not an executable program, but part of the Windows startup routine, storing some device drivers for basic hardware (keyboard, mouse, etc).
I remember Windows 1 and it wasn't that great. I used GEM at the time and it was quite superior to both Windows 1 and 2. I am not quite certain why it failed in the marketplace. Apple sued them for look and feel and it brought updates to a halt and that might have been the reason. I was quite suprised to find that GEM is still around as an open source project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGEM if you want to take a look.
Looks to still be there to me, as WordPad. And "write.exe" at the command line still launches it!
"win100.ovl" won't load because it's not an executable program, but part of the Windows startup routine, storing some device drivers for basic hardware (keyboard, mouse, etc).