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Windows 3.1 included the following fonts: Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman, in regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic versions, as well as Symbol (a collection of scalable symbols).
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TrueType font support was added, providing scalable fonts to Windows applications, without having to resort to using a third-party font technology such as Adobe Type Manager. When installed with high resolution/ high color driver, it only operates in 386 Enhanced Mode. Windows 3.1 can run in Standard mode if installed with the VGA display driver.
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Some older features were removed, like CGA graphics support (although Windows 3.0's CGA driver still worked on 3.1) and compatibility with real-mode Windows 2.x applications. The effect of this was to increase system stability over the crash-prone Windows 3.0.
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Windows 3.1 dropped real mode support and required a minimum of a 286 PC with 1 MB of RAM to run. Windows 3.1, showing some of the personalization options available It included Minesweeper as a replacement for Reversi (though Reversi was still included in some copies). As with Windows 3.0, version 3.1 had File Manager and Program Manager, but unlike all previous versions, Windows 3.1 cannot run in real mode. Windows 3.1 was designed to have backward compatibility with older Windows platforms. Similar functionality was available for Windows 3.0 through Adobe Type Manager (ATM) font system from Adobe. Windows 3.1, released on April 6, 1992, introduced a TrueType font system (and a set of highly legible fonts), which effectively made Windows a viable desktop publishing platform for the first time.