Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has answered the question of why Microsoft insisted on running up a miniature Windows ...

The ingenious reason why Windows 95 setup chose mini Windows 3.1 over 32-bit options

Some users were keen on finding out whether the MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 versions could install a miniature Windows 95 instead ...
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Why Windows 3.1 Is My Favorite Operating System for My Raspberry Pi

The easiest way to perform the installation is to create a directory named WINSETUP in the c_drive directory and extract all the installation images to it using the command 7z x-y -0"/home/pi/win311/c ...
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Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Windows ...
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Did you know? Windows 95 used three different operating systems during setup

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

Windows 95 developers didn't have enough time to give the OS its own setup program

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft veteran who has worked on Windows development for more than 30 years, recently explained that the Windows 95 setup caused developers more ...