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For one thing, I'm fairly sure they didn't yet have a PE environment ready to go; another would probably be a lack of RAM. Installing it to disk first lets you
by Krutonium 2y ago
For one thing, I'm fairly sure they didn't yet have a PE environment ready to go; another would probably be a lack of RAM. Installing it to disk first lets you load as needed, instead of all at once.
- karmakaze 2y agoWe're talking about making a single setup program that runs in DOS+VGA. None of that's needed. As for the RAM you can assume minimum requirements for Windows 95. Also C compilers (e.g. Watcom) came with DOS 16M memory extender bundled to use 16MB of it as early as 1989.