On Fri, 2025-08-29 at 23:15 -0500, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Microsoft released WIN 95 on this day 30 years ago. > > > Its first retail availability was August 24. > > > > It was a game changer > > for the average PC computer user but more important than Windows > > 3.1? Not > > so sure. > > > > That's a great question. I had only started using PCs in 1993, so I > don't > have an opinion. But for me personally I think W95 was the beginning > of the > gradual end of my use of DOS outside of Windows.
I was using OS/2 Warp 5 by then. It ran Windoze programs faster than 3.22 because it had a 32-bit graphics engine, while the Windoze graphics engine was still 16-bit code. I remember a quip in one of the trade rags that "Using Windows NT was like having a child help you."
