I wasn't impressed with '95 either and stayed with DOS6.22 and WFW3.1 until WIN98 came out; especially with a faster computer, by then both WIN98 and especially MS-DOS were substantially faster. I still use a dedicated DOS box for some old software and even the CMD prompt for a few things that are difficult at best in Windows today.
Command lines forever!! On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM brad via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I got Win95 as soon as it was available. Took me over a dozen attempts > and hardware reconfigs to get it to install. After installation, I hated > it. On my 486-33 it was dog slow. And I don't know why but even to this > day I find point and click frustratingly slow. Maybe because I could type > with two hands? I remember just finding Win95 added time to everything I > wanted to do, not including when it crashed. I found it so much easier to > do something like search for a file with my trusty DIR /s. Windows search > couldn't find a file taped to its face. Even today if I do a search for an > app sitting right there in the start menu it often can't find it. Ever > since then it feels like Microsoft has been adding steps to formerly simple > tasks, which means more mouse clicks and more frustration for me.I actually > uninstalled Win95 and reverted to DOS after 2 weeks. Part of it was > frustration but part was my PC ran my BBS, and Telegard multiuser did *not* > get along with Win95. I only went back when games forced me to, because > they began requiring DirectX.Still am faster and better with CLI.BradSent > from my Galaxy > -------- Original message --------From: Van Snyder via cctalk < > [email protected]> Date: 2025-08-30 10:16 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To: > [email protected] Cc: Van Snyder <[email protected]> Subject: > [cctalk] Re: WIN 95 On Fri, 2025-08-29 at 23:15 -0500, Eric Christopherson > via cctalkwrote:> 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.
