I seem to recall Windows 95 had 17 discs!
Hardware & Technical Intel 486 compatability issues
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O/S 2 (Warp) had 29 disks^^
I remember my first 3,5" Floppy drive. I was when I got my Amiga 500 (witch was much better and cheaper than the PS/2 that days). I also remember my second one. I got it from my grandparents, because a program always needed the other disk and it said: insert disk to any drive (not DF0: like all the others^^), so I learned, a computer could have more than one Disk-drive...
Soon the Amiga was fitted with 4MB of (1MB Chip-, 3MB Fast-) RAM, a 20MB Harddrive, three Floppy-Drives and soon upgraded to Workbench 2.1...
My first IBM Compatible was a 486DX33 with 4MB as well, a SB Pro and a Tseng 3000, I upgraded it for WingCommander2 and later for Frontier, having a AWE32 and a Plextor "Caddy" CD-ROM on its IDE Port. When I swapped for my Pentium 90 (overclocked to 100^^), the AWE32 was moved to it, but the VGA-Card became a brand-new Tseng 4000 (later with a 3dfx Voodoo Card then with a second one^^)... Good old times. Playing Elite, Transport Tycoon, MechWarrior, Quake, etc...
Do you guys remember memmaker.exe in DOS 6? I loved it, I asked everyone for copies of their mouse- and CD-ROM drivers to find the best combination to fit into upper memory. The more there was, the better it was. I loved smartdrive, the disk-cache, Novells IPX and netbeui, because it was much easier to setup for lan gaming than that "strange TCP-IP Number thing" ... In 96 there was a really breaking new thing: "Internet" - until '98 for me it rather was Dialup to Mailbox Systems and CompuServe & Co, the world wide web was not half as interesting as the usenet was...
OMG - memories....
I remember my first 3,5" Floppy drive. I was when I got my Amiga 500 (witch was much better and cheaper than the PS/2 that days). I also remember my second one. I got it from my grandparents, because a program always needed the other disk and it said: insert disk to any drive (not DF0: like all the others^^), so I learned, a computer could have more than one Disk-drive...
Soon the Amiga was fitted with 4MB of (1MB Chip-, 3MB Fast-) RAM, a 20MB Harddrive, three Floppy-Drives and soon upgraded to Workbench 2.1...
My first IBM Compatible was a 486DX33 with 4MB as well, a SB Pro and a Tseng 3000, I upgraded it for WingCommander2 and later for Frontier, having a AWE32 and a Plextor "Caddy" CD-ROM on its IDE Port. When I swapped for my Pentium 90 (overclocked to 100^^), the AWE32 was moved to it, but the VGA-Card became a brand-new Tseng 4000 (later with a 3dfx Voodoo Card then with a second one^^)... Good old times. Playing Elite, Transport Tycoon, MechWarrior, Quake, etc...
Do you guys remember memmaker.exe in DOS 6? I loved it, I asked everyone for copies of their mouse- and CD-ROM drivers to find the best combination to fit into upper memory. The more there was, the better it was. I loved smartdrive, the disk-cache, Novells IPX and netbeui, because it was much easier to setup for lan gaming than that "strange TCP-IP Number thing" ... In 96 there was a really breaking new thing: "Internet" - until '98 for me it rather was Dialup to Mailbox Systems and CompuServe & Co, the world wide web was not half as interesting as the usenet was...
OMG - memories....
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I did not know that Windows 95 was also on diskette. I have known that the CD version
Perhaps install Windows 8.1, before the installation of the pack office ? For a better reliability ...
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I'm tootling along with a E6500 myself quite happily with a radeon HD6850 1G videocard.