SvennoJ said: That's nice and all, but I doubt windows 10 will do my windows 7 PC any good lol. Plus I welcome to end of updates! Freedom, turn on and off without waiting forever. I still have a PC running XP as well, and one with Windows NT but that one is in a closet somewhere. |
Same here.
My Win7 PC is from 2008, I'm not even sure all the hardware inside my case is compatible to Win10, let alone some peripherals to whom I'm sure are no Win10 drivers anymore.
Speaking of ald PCs, I also have a very old one... a 486 DX-40 running on Win95SE. Perfect for some retrogaming!
Pemalite said:
Missing several operating systems in that line... Like Windows NT (Good), Windows 2000 (Good) and Windows 8.1. (Meh) |
Oh yeah. Even remember the pre-windows era, I started with DOS 3.0...
As for Win95, it's hardware requirements were a huge step up from Win 3.x, which is where Win95 got it's bad rep from. Win3.x could run on a 286, Win95 needed at least a 486 DX to run properly, and many were still on 386 or 486 SX at the time.
Win XP, being NT-based, was a nightmare early on for DOS-based software. It took until Service Pack 2 to really become good enough for most people. It's good reputation comes mostly from Vista being so badly received as a successor because it, just like the situation between Win95 and 3.x before, needed much higher specs than XP, which by then could run on any potato.
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