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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 syst
by ido 5y ago
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 mac or windows).
- jb1991 5y agoThe issue is that your arbitrary line of 2001 is a little odd -- things have gotten better over time, but Windows 3.1 was also pretty usable. Windows 98 was better than Windows 95. Was XP better than 98? I don't recall a major difference in stability, per se.
- ido 5y agoI do, the NT line was a massive leap and XP was the first time NT was rolled to the consumer market (NT4 and 2K were great but mostly sold for workstation/server). The switch from 9x to XP was absolutely not an arbitrary line, nor the switch to OS X at the same year.