30 Aug
2025
30 Aug
'25
7:37 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM Murray McCullough via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I made a laser photoplotter that needed DMA to send the
raster bits to the laser. I wrote that code in Win95 user
mode (didn't have the SDK to create a real driver.) But,
that locked me in to either 96 or 98 at the latest.
I have a circa 2000 pick and place machine that runs Win
95. It has a board that interfaces the ISA bus to a 68K VME
CPU that runs the motion hardware. Same issue, all this
runs in user mode.
Jon
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.
>