windows 3.1 is now 29 years old

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cool

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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Win3.11 came on 6x 3.5 inch floppies
Win95 came on 15x 3.5 inch floppies or 1x CDROM

Didn't windows 95 come on 25 floppies tho?

No it's 15, I still have it in a case that has alot of my old floppies in it. I may have come with a 16th disk to act as some sort of startup disk or OS repair launcher disk, but yea its 15 for the OS itself. I remember using this set to do installs a few times on some machines where they had issues booting the newer OS' like 95 and 98 via CDROM cause they had a SCSI controller based CDROM.

[Talby]

Escrito originalmente por John (Chirch):

...can you even boot off usb on a old win95/98/me/2000 computers?

If they dont boot USB, put in a PCI network card and they will boot up on PXE

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...Man, MS-DOS Were the days. although the 640k ram barrier was pretty crap.

IMO the better setup was Desqview with QEMM, it gave apps easy access to the extended memory and had plenty of dos apps that multitasked far better than any win3.x apps would

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Many of those older PCs could technically boot off of USB, if that USB was formatted a certain way so that it included Floppy Disk Boot Emulation.

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Just remembering the bat files we had to make to free up that valuable 640k ram, give me a headache now. Kids playing today have no idea what a bat file even is.

or even what "cd" in the dos prompt means

[𝔇ave]

well now i just feel old af.. thanks

[xd]

Whats even crazier is that Windows XP is turning 20 soon, Meaning Windows 3.1 is only ten years older than Windows XP.





Its just crazy to think that when Windows XP (an OS that many users where still on up until recently) was released, Windows 3.1 was the equivalent to Windows 8 now.

[ゆのーさん]

still my main driver

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What I miss is Win2000 Professional.
As stable as 98-SE but with all of the NT Kernel backbone and features.

I only switched from 2000 to XP simply because GPU Drivers stopped supporting it and thus for a gaming PC, the switch to XP was a must by around the time XP SP2 came out, which is when XP got good. XP was pretty buggy trash before SP2 came out. To bad you can't even use it on modern PCs except via a VM

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still my main driver

Obviously a joke, using the internet on win 3.1 would give you a million viruses such as "Click til ya win" which corrupted windows if you lost

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Whats even crazier is that Windows XP is turning 20 soon, Meaning Windows 3.1 is only ten years older than Windows XP.

Have you heard of LGR? I wonder if he'll do an anniversary video on windows xp considering he built that 36 hundred dollar xp pc back in 18.

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Escrito originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

What I miss is Win2000 Professional.
As stable as 98-SE but with all of the NT Kernel backbone and features.

I only switched from 2000 to XP simply because GPU Drivers stopped supporting it and thus for a gaming PC, the switch to XP was a must by around the time XP SP2 came out, which is when XP got good. XP was pretty buggy trash before SP2 came out. To bad you can't even use it on modern PCs except via a VM

And XP Was and STILL IS the best version of windows since 95. why am i saying 95? it's actually decently stable and is fun to play around with. i hope to burn a new copy of 2000 for my pentium 550 to install and enjoy. recently i had my pentium 500 which had 256 megs of ram (upgraded to 512) , The Pentium 3 at 500 Megahertz, 1997 ISA Soundblaster 16 (great sound card, even doctor who sounds good on it.), 10 megabit 3com ethernet card from 96, 16 megabyte matrox g400. but i upgraded the video card and then i put windows 98 second editon to play doom 2 and other old games on. it ran great, but the ol' pentium 500 stopped working for somereason. the Mother board was fine! it's just the cpu wasn't working right, i hope to fix it. it currently has a original 97 pentium 233 in there so i could have 256 mega ram and win 95, but the CD wasn't reading. i hope to finish my pentium 550 project soon. that also has the same soundblaster 16, 32 megabyte tnt2 vanta agp and a 3com 100 megabit ethernet card.

[Carlsberg]

Escrito originalmente por John (Chirch):

And XP Was and STILL IS the best version of windows since 95. why am i saying 95? it's actually decently stable and is fun to play around with. i hope to burn a new copy of 2000 for my pentium 550 to install and enjoy. recently i had my pentium 500 which had 256 megs of ram (upgraded to 512) , The Pentium 3 at 500 Megahertz, 1997 ISA Soundblaster 16 (great sound card, even doctor who sounds good on it.), 10 megabit 3com ethernet card from 96, 16 megabyte matrox g400. but i upgraded the video card and then i put windows 98 second editon to play doom 2 and other old games on. it ran great, but the ol' pentium 500 stopped working for somereason. the Mother board was fine! it's just the cpu wasn't working right, i hope to fix it. it currently has a original 97 pentium 233 in there so i could have 256 mega ram and win 95, but the CD wasn't reading. i hope to finish my pentium 550 project soon. that also has the same soundblaster 16, 32 megabyte tnt2 vanta agp and a 3com 100 megabit ethernet card.

I believe my sister still has my old portable. Its an 8086, built like an old typewriter and although it was considered a 'portable' its heavy and needs to be connected to mains wherever you used it, no battery back then.
Text only screen and it was orange, wrote lots of stuff on that thing. I even got paid once by the parents of a student to write her assignment for uni on it because she had no clue, often wondered if she has a successful IT career now.

Now I feel like I could be old lolol.

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Escrito originalmente por Carlsberg:

Escrito originalmente por John (Chirch):

And XP Was and STILL IS the best version of windows since 95. why am i saying 95? it's actually decently stable and is fun to play around with. i hope to burn a new copy of 2000 for my pentium 550 to install and enjoy. recently i had my pentium 500 which had 256 megs of ram (upgraded to 512) , The Pentium 3 at 500 Megahertz, 1997 ISA Soundblaster 16 (great sound card, even doctor who sounds good on it.), 10 megabit 3com ethernet card from 96, 16 megabyte matrox g400. but i upgraded the video card and then i put windows 98 second editon to play doom 2 and other old games on. it ran great, but the ol' pentium 500 stopped working for somereason. the Mother board was fine! it's just the cpu wasn't working right, i hope to fix it. it currently has a original 97 pentium 233 in there so i could have 256 mega ram and win 95, but the CD wasn't reading. i hope to finish my pentium 550 project soon. that also has the same soundblaster 16, 32 megabyte tnt2 vanta agp and a 3com 100 megabit ethernet card.

I believe my sister still has my old portable. Its an 8086, built like an old typewriter and although it was considered a 'portable' its heavy and needs to be connected to mains wherever you used it, no battery back then.
Text only screen and it was orange, wrote lots of stuff on that thing. I even got paid once by the parents of a student to write her assignment for uni on it because she had no clue, often wondered if she has a successful IT career now.

Now I feel like I could be old lolol.

Very cool. ahhh, the intel 8086, based on the legendary 8008 used for x86 cpus for over 2 decades. you can even run older versions on linux on x86, minimum 386.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Nah; Win2000 and Win7 SP1 are by far the most stable of all of the MS Windows thus far.
It's sad that many games now require Win10. And for what reason, Vulkan is superior to DX12 in so many ways. And Win10 is now like a Win8+Android hybrid piece of dog crap.

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

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Nah; Win2000 and Win7 SP1 are by far the most stable of all of the MS Windows thus far.
It's sad that many games now require Win10. And for what reason, Vulkan is superior to DX12 in so many ways. And Win10 is now like a Win8+Android hybrid piece of dog crap.

i still use windows 7 but there's still problems with windows 7 even after its release 12 years ago. 14 gigabytes of hard drive space required for the MINIMUM basic installation of windows 7. how bloated is that? i bet windows 10 is even worse. meanwhile, you can fit the fully updated whole version of windows xp on a single 650 megabyte cd.