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Windows 95 Nostalgia

Comments reminisce about and compare modern or described system behaviors to features, stability issues, and experiences from Windows 95, 98, 3.x, and related early OSes like OS/2.

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Narishma • Dec 26, 2022 • View on HN

What you describe was before Windows 95.

lhorie • May 16, 2020 • View on HN

Isn't that effectively what we had with windows circa 1995?

willnonya • Apr 27, 2022 • View on HN

Bought in the windows 95 era...

ido • Feb 3, 2022 • View on HN

I was using windows 95 since almost the time it was released in the summer of '95 (on a then state of the art Pentium with 16mb RAM - way above the minimum system requirements), it was significantly less stable than the NT line (that XP and beyond belong to). Crashes and freezes were a lot more common than today. Classic Mac was similarly unstable, maybe even worse in terms of a single program being able to freeze/crash the entire OS (which almost never happens to me today in either ma

starikovs • Sep 25, 2019 • View on HN

Native windows 95 worked better ;)

bigmattystyles • Sep 25, 2019 • View on HN

Damn, I thought they had switched to OS/2

StavrosK • Jan 21, 2013 • View on HN

What privileges? It was Windows in the 90s.

fortyseven • Jul 12, 2019 • View on HN

I thought it might be an old story about Windows 95.

ksherlock • May 29, 2025 • View on HN

Windows 95 has entered the chat.

nntwozz • May 29, 2025 • View on HN

Windows 95 has entered the chat.