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Screenshot of Windows 3.1 showing the "About Program Manager" dialogue in the background (displaying the copyright years 1985-1992)… …and in the Foreground, the "Desktop" applet of Control Panel, showing the "Starfield Simulation" option in the Screen Saver section.

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Screenshot of Windows 3.1 showing the "About Program Manager" dialogue in the background (displaying the copyright years 1985-1992)… …and in the Foreground, the "Desktop" applet of Control Panel, showing the "Starfield Simulation" option in the Screen Saver section.
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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) (stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 18:56:38 JST Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@a1ba Bah… youngin' "Starfield simulation" goes back a decade before Windows XP.
I did just check Windows 3.0, but no screen saver option there, maybe it was an add-on for that release, but Windows 3.1 it was an out-of-the-box standard feature.

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