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Re: Windows 96

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Post by wdb »

deathanatos wrote: post #99
WaitWaitWha wrote: post #89

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I just want to quietly grumble, like an appropriately crotchety old man... '3.5" floppies? Bah! Try 8", and they were really floppy! Try installing AT&T Unix from those...'

I'm probably not old enough to qualify as "crotchety old man", but yeah, 3.5" are diskettes to me since they weren't really floppies. I raise your floppy disk install one OS/2 Warp install: https://twitter.com/jhegarty/status/1162326199445655552/phot... I still feel that OS/2 Warp feels more valuable in ones hands, just because of the sheer weight of it… (compared to modern OSes that have no weight because I download…

OS/Warp 4 and it's Describe/2 was the best!

Re: Windows 96

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Post by nonamenoslogan »

asd wrote: post #128
jamal-kumar wrote: post #112

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I just looked it up -- Windows 98 was THIRTY EIGHT floppy disks hahahahaha

I bet a sealed 38 floppy edition of Windows 98, in mint condition, would go for a million USD.

What’ll ya give me for an unopened copy of Win 3.1 on 5.25s?

Re: Windows 96

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Post by mikewarot »

thatwasunusual wrote: post #29

Pretty. :) Gives me PTSD-like flashbacks to the time when I was tasked with installing Windows 95 on 50+ computers on the local school. For the young(er), Windows was on 14-ish 3.5" floppy disks, and I had to do some heavy calculation and logistics copying those discs while installing the OS to make my effort as efficient as possible. IIRC, I managed to keep the installing cyclus going on 28 computers at a time, and…

I had a Backpack parallel printer port hard drive back then. I could boot my DOS floppy with the driver, and have full access to 300 megabytes of stuff. It made installing stuff so much easier.

Yes, of course I had spare boot floppies. 8)

Re: Windows 96

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Post by asddubs »

Koshkin wrote: post #44
asddubs wrote: post #8

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if you feel that way, you might want to check out the serenityos project. it's a custom unix with a classic windows interface

The worst of both worlds. (I’d prefer Windows with a classic Unix interface.)

I would call that the worst of both worlds

Re: Windows 96

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Post by move-on-by »

pier25 wrote: post #5

These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs. Not, sure if it's nostalgia or if there's something there.

It’s the lack of thinly veiled, or even outright advertisements. UIs are no longer designed for usability, but for manipulation and greater conversions

Re: Windows 96

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Post by JonathonW »

mopsi wrote: post #15
pier25 wrote: post #5

These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs. Not, sure if it's nostalgia or if there's something there.

The old design makes easier to grasp things at a glance, especially in Control Panel. Each icon has a distinct shape and color, in contrast with Windows 10 Settings app that has much more abstract monochrome icons that are difficult to tell apart. Monochrome vector icons make things like dark mode easier to implement. Such small software shops like Microsoft unfortunately cannot afford to hire designers to do multipl…

The new Windows 11 Settings icons are pretty fantastic— full color and lots of distinctive shapes.

Unfortunately, we’ll probably be at Windows 20 before the last of the Windows 8-style monochrome icons finally finds its way out of Windows, because that’s how things go at Microsoft. (It’s harder than it used to be, but I’m pretty sure you can still find a few Windows 95-era icons hanging around, and there are definitely still some 2000 icons in there).

Re: Windows 96

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Post by dinglejungle »

Koshkin wrote: post #44
asddubs wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you feel that way, you might want to check out the serenityos project. it's a custom unix with a classic windows interface

The worst of both worlds. (I’d prefer Windows with a classic Unix interface.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WXzLKv_rc

Re: Windows 96

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Post by airstrike »

ghostline wrote: post #123
airstrike wrote: post #105

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the chat was the absolute best part. Shoutout to "Elon Musk" and a bunch of other anons who made it feel like the 90s again

I was Elon Musk lol. Whats up airstrike

LOL I was admin/SYSTEM and all the silly names. What's up!
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