Comment by microcolonel
7 years ago
I will say, Windows 95 was pretty great, I identify with the Microsoft customer in the hero image. I'm gathering notes to write a GUI toolkit which only makes well-formed Windows 95-style UIs.
7 years ago
I will say, Windows 95 was pretty great, I identify with the Microsoft customer in the hero image. I'm gathering notes to write a GUI toolkit which only makes well-formed Windows 95-style UIs.
Maybe my memory is a bit rose colored, but I still think NT 4.0 was great. Win 95 interface and rock solid OS.
Windows 2000 was even more rock-solid. I used to run it on a couple of Sony Vaio laptops and I never had a blue screen.
Didn't they move the video driver back into the kernel in 2000?
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You were definitely living in the future with NT 4.0. But the memory requirements were way too high for the average home user to afford it. Win95 was a bridge into this modern new world of applications protected from each other.
I was pretty excited too.
I even installed it with floppies on a laptop.
I wasn't concerned with anything the article was about at the time. It just felt like the PC OS world took a jump into the future... even if the reason I mostly felt that way was the UI and etc.