Reply to: Windows 95 launched 25 years ago today.

[d000hg]

The clue is is in the name "Windows 95", Gricer. The rest is arithmetic.

It's quite common for products not to be launched in the year they're named, though normally only an off-by-1 error. I assume it's due to zer0-indexing confusing the marketing folk.

[Old Greg]

Was it really that long ago?

The clue is is in the name "Windows 95", Gricer. The rest is arithmetic.

[Rearden Metal]

Was it really that long ago?

That was launched with quite a fanfare - wasn't the Guardian free that day courtesy of dead eye Bill?

[NigelJK]

True UK Techies did OS1.2 -> CPN -> Arthur -> RiscOS

If you wanted to run any of the inferior OS's you could on RiscOS.

[Old Greg]

I always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:

Divorced
Beheaded
Divorced
Beheaded
Divorced
Disemboweled
Divorced
Beheaded
Beheaded
Survived

qh

You're welcome.

[NotAllThere]

GEM was quite fun.

[vetran]

1. I always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:

3.11 Okay
95 pants
98 SE Decent
ME Crap
XP Okay
Vista awful
7 Goodish
8 Pants again
8.1 Slightly less pants Start screen is back!
10 Decent as long as you don't run updates until you have updated all the drivers and your laptop charger is plugged in.

qh

1-3.0 stayed up as long as NLyUK's pants.

3.1 yes it lasts a day mostly.
3.11 (Windows for Crashgroups) ok for a day or two if you don't push it or have odd drivers.
95 - ME (Windows Multiple exceptions) = 3.11 ++

2000 - yes that lasts a week before reboot for an ordinary user. Corporations loved it.
XP fast more secure and lasted a week or two between reboots. Ditto
Vista - skip.
7 - what vista should have been.
8 - too early, too far.
8.1 - what 8 should have been.
10 - properly managed normal user reboots once a month for updates.

[Old Greg]

I always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:

3.11 Okay
95 pants
98 SE Decent
ME Crap
XP Okay
Vista awful
7 Goodish
8 Pants again
8.1 Slightly less pants Start screen is back!
10 Decent as long as you don't run updates until you have updated all the drivers and your laptop charger is plugged in.

qh

7 and 10 for me.

[quackhandle]

I always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:

3.11 Okay
95 pants
98 SE Decent
ME Crap
XP Okay
Vista awful
7 Goodish
8 Pants again
8.1 Slightly less pants Start screen is back!
10 Decent as long as you don't run updates until you have updated all the drivers and your laptop charger is plugged in.

qh

[Old Greg]

PRAY4BR14

FTFY

[darmstadt]

FOLHH

FOBR14

[darmstadt]

Yes, if my memory serves me correctly it relied on MVS as the core. There were other interesting snippets such as having to get the letters IBM into the BIOS without infringing patents etc. O' for the good old days.

MVS - big endian, EBCDIC
Intel - little endian
OS/2 - ascii

[jainnode]

Bollocks...

FOLHH

[Paddy]

And then they installed CCTV in the server room to stop you spending your day wanking over second-hand dog porn. Clearing up afterwards is how PC got into "IT".

Do you mean that the CCTV worked?

[Paddy]

it in turn, was based on MVS.
ported to micros

Yes, if my memory serves me correctly it relied on MVS as the core. There were other interesting snippets such as having to get the letters IBM into the BIOS without infringing patents etc. O' for the good old days.