Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system

[Teo Zenios]

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From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system


> > >   I think I said "Windows 95 or better," which means Windows 1.0, 2.x
and
> > > 3.x are (should be?) on topic.
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Teo Zenios wrote:
> > I think Win 3.x is much different then anything after it, might as well
be
> > another OS.
>
> Those differentiations are very subjective.
> To me, Win95 is just Windoze 4.00
>
> OTOH, I consider NT to be significantly different.
>
>

Depends if you are talking about look and feel or just the kernel/driver/GUI
model. Either way Windows 95 is quite a bit different then Windows 3.x or
anything before it.