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What I think is amazing is that W95 fit on a set of floppies. I think the only installation medium I’ve ever seen for it was a CD-ROM.

• samstave 2y ago
  CDroms were a luxury addon when W95 was released - but every machine had a 3.5 I want to say it was in the ~20 disk range... There were a lot of really fun things that happened with W95 - a lot of "mischevious" cyberwar... Like taking image of desktop as background came out with that - so nothing was clickable as a prank. There were several backdoor utils There were several prank links to something that seemed serious/work -- but then switched to a really loud voice yelling "IM WATCHING P*RN" (The backdoor utils were really powerful though, and they remind me of a thing I am doing with Cursor/Claude -- Agent mode access to a fresh windows laptop as admin and having the bot fully config my new windows machine to my specs.
• Lammy 2y ago
  There was a little magic to make that happen too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
  • jamesfinlayson 2y ago
    Oh, I vaguely remember this from when floppy disks were still around (though not by the name DMF) - I remember them having a 1.44MB capacity but some smart people reformatted their floppy disks to get it up to 1.68MB.
• Kwpolska 2y ago
  Windows 95 came on 13 floppies. That version excluded most fancy features, you can't compress ~360 MB to ~22. Windows 11 could also "fit on a set of floppies" - although thousands of floppies would be completely absurd, it is not impossible.