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When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water, including AmigaOS. Which was itself vastly superior to anything else at the time, including the v

When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water, including AmigaOS. Which was itself vastly superior to anything else at the time, including the various Mac OS. It took years for Apple to even support preemptive multitasking, they were easily 5 if not 10 years behind (and still kind of are today).

masklinn 10y ago
> When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water Surely not in a technical sense. OS2/Warp and NeXT already existed and BeOS would be released a few months later able to play multiple videos in real time (playing MP3 on Windows would preclude doing anything else with the machine for a few more years, lest you liked skipping).
- georgeecollins 10y ago
  Windows 95 was the best mass market OS at that time. Yes OS2/Warp and NeXT existed, but they were not popular. The Mac and Amiga OSs were inferior at that point.
  - masklinn 10y ago
    That doesn't come even remotely close to "blowing everything out the water".
  - valuearb 10y ago
    It had the best bones at that point, but it's UI/Fonts/Graphics were still subpar.
    - masklinn 10y ago
      > It had the best bones at that point Windows 95? Had the best bones? The underlying system was just terrible, there's a reason why the line would be replaced by NT two releases later.
konradb 10y ago
> and still kind of are today What are you referring to here?
- valuearb 10y ago
  Yeah, I run Windows 10 on my Mac, but only under protest. It's really not as good as MacOS.
- hota_mazi 10y ago
  That even today, MacOS looks very antiquated compared to Windows (talking mostly about the UI and UX here, the foundations of both OS are on par).
deerpig 10y ago
>When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water We had two NeXT color slabs at the time when Win95 came out. We used them to help MS launch Win95 in Hong Kong. NeXT by then was gone as a company and the slabs were getting long in the tooth. We switched to SGI -- the SGI Indy wasn't graphically as slick as NeXT Step, but it it blew away ANYTHING out there. IRIX was a very nice BSD Unix. We built one of the first ISPs in Hong Kong on IRIX. Solaris had just come out, which was a buggy mess, and to me wasn't nearly as nice to work with as SunOS on Sparc 10s. We were running IRIX, SunOS, Solaris and not long afterwards, early versions of Slackware (which ran our Usenet servers). But even today, my fondest memories are using NeXT and SGI -- very cool, very expensive.
- tolger 10y ago
  IRIX was actually System V (with BSD extensions) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX. But I agree, it was very nice and I remember it fondly.

masklinn 10y ago

> When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water Surely not in a technical sense. OS2/Warp and NeXT already existed and BeOS would be released a few months later able to play multiple videos in real time (playing MP3 on Windows would preclude doing anything else with the machine for a few more years, lest you liked skipping).

georgeecollins 10y ago
Windows 95 was the best mass market OS at that time. Yes OS2/Warp and NeXT existed, but they were not popular. The Mac and Amiga OSs were inferior at that point.
- masklinn 10y ago
  That doesn't come even remotely close to "blowing everything out the water".
- valuearb 10y ago
  It had the best bones at that point, but it's UI/Fonts/Graphics were still subpar.
  - masklinn 10y ago
    > It had the best bones at that point Windows 95? Had the best bones? The underlying system was just terrible, there's a reason why the line would be replaced by NT two releases later.

konradb 10y ago

> and still kind of are today What are you referring to here?

valuearb 10y ago
Yeah, I run Windows 10 on my Mac, but only under protest. It's really not as good as MacOS.
hota_mazi 10y ago
That even today, MacOS looks very antiquated compared to Windows (talking mostly about the UI and UX here, the foundations of both OS are on par).

deerpig 10y ago

>When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water We had two NeXT color slabs at the time when Win95 came out. We used them to help MS launch Win95 in Hong Kong. NeXT by then was gone as a company and the slabs were getting long in the tooth. We switched to SGI -- the SGI Indy wasn't graphically as slick as NeXT Step, but it it blew away ANYTHING out there. IRIX was a very nice BSD Unix. We built one of the first ISPs in Hong Kong on IRIX. Solaris had just come out, which was a buggy mess, and to me wasn't nearly as nice to work with as SunOS on Sparc 10s. We were running IRIX, SunOS, Solaris and not long afterwards, early versions of Slackware (which ran our Usenet servers). But even today, my fondest memories are using NeXT and SGI -- very cool, very expensive.

tolger 10y ago
IRIX was actually System V (with BSD extensions) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX. But I agree, it was very nice and I remember it fondly.