30 Aug
2025
30 Aug
'25
10:07 a.m.
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 <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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."
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.