Windows 2.02
| Build of Windows 2.x | |
 Excel for Windows 2.0 running on the bundled Windows 2.02 runtime | |
| OS family | 16-bit Windows |
|---|---|
| Version number | 2.02 |
| Architecture | x86 16-bit |
| Compiled on | 1987-10-31 |
Windows 2.02 is a version of Windows 2.0 that was used as the runtime for Excel for Windows 2.0.[1] The Excel runtime version is likely dated 31 October 1987, and only includes the core components (i.e. Kernel, GDI, User and device drivers) as well as the Control Panel.
Ed Fries, who worked on the Excel team at the time, mentioned in an interview that Excel 2.0 shipped on time while the Windows 2.0 ship date had to be delayed:
We ultimately, we ship on our original date. Windows was late, of course. So we ended up shipping with a runtime version of Windows. So that when Excel 2.0 shipped, it came with a version of Windows packaged around it, so it would boot into Windows, just to run that one program, and then it would quit back out.
— Ed Fries[2]
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- ↑ Jon DeVaan on Twitter: "There were so many versions to support boxed product and runtimes. I think 2.0 was boxed. 2.01 was the PageMaker runtime, 2.02 was the Excel runtime and 2.03 was boxed again 2.0 proper May never have shipped. It was all very fluid. Did I mention I wasn’t sleeping much?"
- ↑ Spicer, Dag; Fries, Ed. Oral History of Ed Fries, Computer History Museum. 6 May 2014.