Comment by cyberax

4 hours ago

Microsoft in the 90-s and early 2000-s was a serious company. Windows NT and Office were engineering marvels.

Windows 95 was a brilliant hack that allowed 32-bit GUI programs to run on hardware with 2Mb of RAM (Windows had 4Mb of RAM as the official minimum, but you could run it on 2Mb) while preserving compatibility with the majority of DOS software.