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QuazatronBeing the guy who had to feed the whole 32 floppy disk stack to the wretched PC every time the user broke the Windows 95 installation pushed me to the *nix camp quite early, I can tell you that.
Each floppy had a good 10% chance of being faulty, so imagine the fun.
Oh, I’d actually forgotten how flaky 3.5" floppies were. That’s very true.
A 5.25" you could probably send in a letter and stick the letter on a fridge with a magnet so your remember to mail it and it would still work when it arrived.
Well, maybe not, but it was quite a difference.
fallaciousBasisI managed 100s of days of uptime on 95.
It really helped if you replaced the shell, imo.
Defragging monthly, fixing registry values and hoping windows 98 would fix things this time was all I remember about Win95.
But windows 98 came out about 3 months after I built my own first PC. It was still full of problems, but I eventually ended up ok NT/2000 and things got better. Then I quit windows for good when apple went to Intel.
I just found out what the glorious emulator 86box is and I installed everything. Fucking everything. 98, 98 SE, ME, XP, 2000.
And then there was 95. I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with that OS. Bood disks and ISO were absolutely fine, but Setup took almost an hour. Then I wanted to install Plus!, but I opened the wrong setup.exe.
Instead of warning my dumb ass, the fucking thing started*installing over itself on the fly*. And it shat the bed so hard, the whole machine was unusable. Manually starting explorer.exe after reboot (which for some reason brought up Task Manager every time) worked, but every tiny click informed me that Rundll32 has performed an illegal actions. What in the futhark is that ugly ass OS.
Dave.What in the futhark is that ugly ass OS.
It was the first step up from Windows 3.11 which was basically a DOS GUI. It was rough, but definitely an improvement. Compare that to the latest “updated OS” from Microsoft now.
And 30 years ago it was quite easy to do dumb shit that completely ruined your system, be it in DOS, Win95, or OS/2.
Example from OS/2 - deleting the image file used for the desktop background in presentation manager (OS/2’s core GUI) meant your system could no longer boot, and when you can’t just google shit to sort things out, you were essentially up for a reinstall at that point.
AnUnusualRelicThere never was any software for it, and they added a windows compatibility layer, ensuring there never would be. But it actually was a single user modern operating system with all the trimmings. Lost opportunity.
But we got Unix back, so it’s not too bad.
Are you sure you’re using the best version of 95?
Like 95a didn’t even have out-of-the-box USB support.
You’ll want to use B or C versions for optimal driver support, including USB.
What in the futhark is that ugly ass OS.
A ham-fisted attempt to drag the DOS world into the 32-bit era. Oh, and they needed to compete with OS/2 but Win3.11 and NT4.0 weren’t going to cut it.