It felt like the future! Reply 28 of 40, by will1384 And for the average home user on a mid-range or low-end system, it was the cat's pajamas. Imagine coming to it from the perspective of maybe only having used previous versions of Windows. Don't think of it with the hindsight of all the tech we now take for granted.
I think anyone giving Win 95 RTM grief today is overlooking just what a huge paradigm shift it was from Win 3.1x and how much of its concepts we still use 25 years later. The desktop! Shortcuts! Start menu and taskbar! Universal right click menus! Windows Explorer! Long! File! Names! File management from within open and save common dialog boxes! (One of the most frustrating things about immersing myself in Windows 3.1 today for any significant period of time is the simple task of file management.)
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Plus Guyana (where I live) didn't have its first dial-up ISP until 1997 (there were just 2 or 3 BBSes that I knew of) so I Internet Explorer of any version was a useless curiosity to me.īut the interface! Oh the interface!. And as for gaming, I had a few small DOS games that I'd copied from friends on floppy (my system didn't even have a CD-ROM drive or sound card) so DirectX for gaming didn't even factor in my world. So DirectDraw or no DirectDraw, it was all the same to me.
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I surely wasn't watching videos on Windows 3.1 before the upgrade with my 160 MB hard disk and I don't think my system could even handle the silly little music videos that shipped on the Win 95 CD anyway. At the time I had a 486DX 33 with a Trident TVGA8900D ISA graphics card and 4MB of RAM. Sorry but Win 95 RTM was nothing but magical to me. It just shows how desperate MS was to release something, given the original release date for a "32-bit Windows" version was 1993.
You had to wait until they've released DirectDraw and manufacturers implemented DirectDraw support in their drivers. They've removed the DCI interface without replacing it late in the beta.
Well, they've actually managed to regress in one aspect from Win 3.11 to Win 95: video. Typical PCs would have been 486's and early Pentiums. Have to put yourself back in a dos/3x mindset.
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