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Windows 95 - Ten Years today!
Posted by Trombonez August 24, 2005 1:46 PM with 12 comment(s)
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Ten years ago today (time flies when you're having fun!) Windows 95 was released...!

Remember the advertisements with 'Start me up' by the Stones? Remember the minimum requirements? 386SX and 4Mb RAM! [:D]

Windows 95 bootscreen This is actually the bootscreen of Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 released in 1996 with IE3 bundeld.


Happy anniversary Windows 95... But I'm glad we're running XP and Vista now!

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ChristopherCain said:

I remember how excited I was when Windows 95 came out.  I purchased it from Computer City, went home and upgraded my Dad's Windows 3.1 system. At the time, it was the best family OS I had ever used.  Looking back, I've changed that opinion many times. Now I wouldn't touch Windows 95 with a ten foot pole.

Regardless, happy anniversary Windows 95.  Without it, we wouldn't have Windows 2000/XP and Vista now. Think about it, ten years from now we'll be complaining about how horrible Windows XP and Windows Vista were in 2005/2006. Enjoy it while it new.

August 24, 2005 11:16 AM
 

Myron said:

I still have a requirement for two computers to operate Windows 95.  It's to support some older hardware.

The two computers are AST Intel 486DX66's with 200Mb hard drives and 16Mb RAM.

Networks without any problems too!

There is still some life left in the older operating systems.

"Horses for courses!"

August 24, 2005 12:13 PM
 

crpietschmann said:

Yeah, I remember Windows 95 looked so cool compared to 3.1. They should have just went from 3.1 to 98SE because 95 and 98 was pretty "crappy". And what the heck happened with WinME? But now even 98SE seems "crappy" compared to XP. In a couple years XP will seem "crappy" compared to Vista.

XP is a pretty solid OS, I'm sure Vista will be even better. But when I look back, Windows 3.1 was probably as solid as XP is now. Win3.1's stability and reliability was probably attributed alot to it being so much smaller of an OS compared to todays OS's. Win3.1's foot print was less than 10MB, now WinXP's foot print is less than 2000MB.

I'll stop rambling now...

 

Timeline

  • Win3.1 - very few blue screens
  • Win95 - one big blue screen
  • Win98 - lots of blue screens
  • Win98SE - slightly fewer than lots of blue screens
  • WinME - freezes instead of giving blue screens
  • WinXP - few blue screens, actually recovers quite nice from a fatal error instead of giving a blue screen.
  • WinXP SP2 - very few blue screens, and recovers even better
  • WinVista - We'll have to wait and see...
August 24, 2005 12:22 PM
 

Steven Bink said:

I remeber I installed beta's of Win95 on my Pentium 90 which I overclocked to 100 Mhz!!! But I went back to win3.11 twice [:$] cause I couldnt get used to Explorer (I loved filemanager[:D]) and I missed the ini files, I felt alone in the dark when starting regedit.

When it RTM'ed I went over and never went back, became an official beta tester for Windows 98 2 years later. I skipped WindowsME and ran main OS Windows 2000 from Beta 2, Windows XP from beta 1. Now Vista Beta 1, I dont run on my laptop cause I cant get the driver to work properly.

 

August 24, 2005 2:34 PM
 

hiwaystar said:

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August 24, 2005 9:10 PM
 

Trombonez said:

When I started off with Windows 95, I ran it on an 486DX4 at a whopping 75Mhz! I had 4MB memory, so my 'workstation' was something special... Later, I placed an extra 3DFX card to run Need for Speed 2 in 3d mode...

Ahhh... those were the times!

August 25, 2005 2:59 AM
 

Robindelocksley said:

We have got  60 computer running windows 95 in our organitation. [:(]

But it's work fine. i'll wait in december we haven't got.

August 25, 2005 5:53 AM
 

Thalid said:

yup start can remember the day i got it on my AST I486DX66 way bether then 3.11 did`t have any problems whit blue screens at all ewen how mush crap i installed (got a few but it was not a pain in the ass :P ), Dad still use it on his old company pc, w95 works whitout any problems as a standalone pc but on a lan it`s finished if you domt have Fw and AV

[<:o)] [<:o)]

 

August 25, 2005 7:46 AM
 

Thalid said:

start= still
August 25, 2005 7:47 AM
 

Roady said:

Lets all load Windows 95 today and visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows95 with IE3 as a tribute [^]
August 25, 2005 9:09 AM
 

xMorpheousx416 said:

For running some of the older games, I used to keep an old computer up and running Win95C...which was actually more stable then Win98SE.  This of course was back in the day you could go to Download.com and click on the Windows update pages and select the various updates you wanted.  I can't remember the program's name exactly...but I also used it when 98SE hit the shelves.

I lived in California at the time it came out, and almost went to the big release party they had in the Bay Area.

I remember seeing the Pentium 75 machines when they came out, and thought [:O] compared to the little old 386SX machine I was used to playing on with only 16mb of ram.  I had a 286 laptop at the time running Windows 3.0 and had 4mb of ram which was alot for laptops at the time...and a $300, 80mb drive!!
August 25, 2005 12:03 PM
 

Sn4k36 said:

here's something for everyone.

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August 29, 2005 5:37 PM
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