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That's completely ridiculous. There was an entire decade of windows before windows 95. Very few people in 1995 would have had a 10 year old 286 PC, yet never us

That's completely ridiculous. There was an entire decade of windows before windows 95. Very few people in 1995 would have had a 10 year old 286 PC, yet never used a GUI.

esotericimpl 5y ago
dev_tty01 5y ago
Windows 3.0 came out in 90, and 3.1 came out in 92. There was very little adoption of the earlier versions, and even 3.0 adoption was sparse. 95 came out in, well, 95. People kept computers longer and upgraded much less back then. The previous post was not ridiculous.
- serf 5y ago
  > The previous post was not ridiculous. it kind of is when you consider Win95 as 'the first good PC gui'. people had been using OS/2 just fine, and Win3.1 was basically whatever a power user needed to be with the amount of aftermarket shells and front ends for it. A midnight commander user might argue that Win95 was the start of the 'forced-bad' GUI experience. Yes, Win95 was a nice jump in UX for the standard lay person -- but it wasn't novel in that; there were lots of options for the PC user.
bombcar 5y ago
Look at the numbers - a vast majority of people had no computer before Windows 95 - arguably Windows 95 is about the time computers started taking off and going mainstream. I went from a 386DX2 to a Pentium 2-class machine in one jump, simply because it wasn't affordable for quite awhile (my first actual "my" computer was Windows 98 iirc).
- CyberDildonics 5y ago
  Look at the numbers What numbers? You just gave a single anecdote that doesn't even support what you were saying.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    https://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-windows-sales-figures-1985-present/ https://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-wind... Here for some - Windows 95 sold 40 million copies in its first year, way more than the install base of windows before that.

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That's completely ridiculous. There was an entire decade of windows before windows 95. Very few people in 1995 would have had a 10 year old 286 PC, yet never us

by CyberDildonics 5y ago

That's completely ridiculous. There was an entire decade of windows before windows 95. Very few people in 1995 would have had a 10 year old 286 PC, yet never used a GUI.

esotericimpl 5y ago
dev_tty01 5y ago
Windows 3.0 came out in 90, and 3.1 came out in 92. There was very little adoption of the earlier versions, and even 3.0 adoption was sparse. 95 came out in, well, 95. People kept computers longer and upgraded much less back then. The previous post was not ridiculous.
- serf 5y ago
  > The previous post was not ridiculous. it kind of is when you consider Win95 as 'the first good PC gui'. people had been using OS/2 just fine, and Win3.1 was basically whatever a power user needed to be with the amount of aftermarket shells and front ends for it. A midnight commander user might argue that Win95 was the start of the 'forced-bad' GUI experience. Yes, Win95 was a nice jump in UX for the standard lay person -- but it wasn't novel in that; there were lots of options for the PC user.
bombcar 5y ago
Look at the numbers - a vast majority of people had no computer before Windows 95 - arguably Windows 95 is about the time computers started taking off and going mainstream. I went from a 386DX2 to a Pentium 2-class machine in one jump, simply because it wasn't affordable for quite awhile (my first actual "my" computer was Windows 98 iirc).
- CyberDildonics 5y ago
  Look at the numbers What numbers? You just gave a single anecdote that doesn't even support what you were saying.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    https://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-windows-sales-figures-1985-present/ https://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-wind... Here for some - Windows 95 sold 40 million copies in its first year, way more than the install base of windows before that.