Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'
Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Aug 2 01:11:46 CDT 2016
> Win95 for those running NT 3.51 was something of a low point. Compared
> to the latter, 95 was a cranky, bug-ridden system that was burdened by
> 8.3 file names, limited disk size, etc. I remember BSOD after BSOD when
> my NT system ran just fine. By the next year, when NT 4.0 came out,
> there was no comparison.
>
> And 3.51 would run on PPC, MIPS and Alpha platforms.
So did 4.0. Early betas of 2000 still ran on Alpha and some others, IIRC,
though I believe the PowerPC port was dropped around then.
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