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The speed and importance of software releases changed over the years. When MS-DOS 6 came out, there were many articles in PC Magazine and Byte. If you look at
by diegof79 5y ago
The speed and importance of software releases changed over the years.
When MS-DOS 6 came out, there were many articles in PC Magazine and Byte. If you look at it from today’s perspective it was a minor release over DOS 5, and yet it took 2 years and tons of marketing.
But, unlike DOS, the release of Windows 95 was huge. The beta -code named Chicago- appeared in the news more or less a year before the release. It was a lot of excitement about switching from 16bits to 32, and the UI looked modern at the time (a change that started in MSWord and the Ctrl32 lib). At that time I was in highschool, using VisualBasic 3 and learning about the Windows API... I was excited too!