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> most people maybe had 16~32MB of system RAM on average circa 1999 For old computers maybe. I never actually heard of anyone doing an upgrade-install of Windo
by o11c 3y ago
> most people maybe had 16~32MB of system RAM on average circa 1999
For old computers maybe. I never actually heard of anyone doing an upgrade-install of Windows though.
I had 64MB in ... probably 1998 and we weren't even a computer-focused household. And your second link seems to back that up ("early 1999"), and that was a major improvement that basically obsoleted our old '95 computer but managed to last until well into the XP era ... huh, which is actually only the same 3 years apart, though we got SP1 which was a year after that.
It's kind of weird how Microsoft released a different OS each year for 4 years in a row.
- bombcar 3y ago98 to XP was 3 years. 98 to 98 SE to 2000 to XP and back to 2000 was all in A short time.
- lproven 3y ago> I never actually heard of anyone doing an upgrade-install of Windows though. You should read the whole thread, then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39986341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39986341 Some users had to install DOS, then Win3, then Win9x, just to get to (say) Win98SE. It was a thing. IBM sold an entire edition of OS/2 Warp that required you to already have Windows 3.1 installed in order to use Windows compatibility. It was called the "Red Spine" edition: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp/ https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp/