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Did you know? Windows 95 used three different operating systems during setup

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...
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The Windows 95 setup was text-based for a good reason, Microsoft employee reveals

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time, PC users were presented with a dull text interface and no graphics. DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team decided to ...
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Install windows 95 on older laptop- HELP

I've been fighting with my IBM thinkpad 355CS which I am trying to install windows 95 on. Since I'm the only person in the world with a 355Cs its a 486 SX (no math copro) 20 megs RAM, 160 meg HD and a ...

Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore – what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its ...

Windows 95's "SYSBCKUP" trick saved Microsoft's OS from rogue installations

Windows 95 had a clever safeguard against sloppy installers that few would have known about.
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How do I make windows 95 floppies?

I'm pretty damn sure that Windows 95 can't fit on 13 floppies ..... even at 1.72MB/floppy, that's like 20MB for the whole OS, which is BS. It might have a boot disk, which will then look at the CDROM ...