Versions of CATIA for Windows 9x

[Bracamonte]

Does anyone where I can find old versions of CATIA to download that supports Windows 95, 98, and ME? I tried CATIA V5R21, but as usual, is not supported. I tried googling for old versions, but all I get is documentations and other random stuff.

[jumper]

V5R14 requires:

System Unit: Intel Pentium III or Pentium 4 based workstations running Microsoft Windows2000 Professional Edition, or Windows XP Professional Edition

Looks like you'll need to check ebay for V4 or earlier.

Update:

According to http://www.firstratemold.com/about-us/c19-news/what-is-catia/, Catia never supported non-NT Windows. It also appears to be the type of software that "If you need to ask, you can't afford it." In other words, if you can't afford to buy a dedicated system to run it on, you won't be able to afford the software itself.

Edited September 5, 2015 by jumper

[jaclaz]

Update:

According to http://www.firstratemold.com/about-us/c19-news/what-is-catia/, Catia never supported non-NT Windows. It also appears to be the type of software that "If you need to ask, you can't afford it." In other words, if you can't afford to buy a dedicated system to run it on, you won't be able to afford the software itself.

 

Sure, and those info have been copied to Wikipedia:

 

http://www.firstratemold.com/about-us/c19-news/what-is-catia/

In 1992, CADAM was purchased from IBM and the next year CATIA CADAM V4 was published. In 1996, it was ported from one to four Unix operating systems, including IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems SunOS and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.

In 1998, an entirely rewritten version of CATIA, CATIA V5 was released, with support for UNIX, Windows NT and Windows XP since 2001.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA

 

 

In 1992, CADAM was purchased from IBM, and the next year CATIA CADAM V4 was published.

In 1996, it was ported from one to four Unix operating systems, including IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems SunOS, and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.

In 1998, V5 was released and was an entirely rewritten version of CATIA with support for UNIX, Windows NT and Windows XP (since 2001).

 

 

Only , original Dassault Systems documentation for CATIA V5 has this to say:

http://www.catia.com.pl/tutorial/z2/infrastructure.pdf

 

 

This task explains how to install the CATIA Version 5 files for the first time on a single computer running a

supported Windows operating system (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98), and set up

your nodelocked licenses.

 

 

The difference being seemingly that while you can install it on a NT Workstation with it's self-standing license for 9x OS's you need a LUM :

 

On Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98, you must use network licensing, and we recommend that you

configure a LUM (License Use Management) server, then configure your computer as a LUM client before

starting the installation procedure. For more information, refer to "Licensing Mechanism on Microsoft

Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98".

 

 

AFAICT at the time noone (in his/her right mind) would have even thought of using a Win9x System as a "working" graphical workstation, so most probably the provision was for a limited set of the program capabilities anyway.

 

jaclaz