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I don't think you are remembering correctly. > It came a few years to early. I remember my shock when I get [1] my OS/2 copy and it was on 10 (yes, ten!) 3.5 i
by lproven 2y ago
I don't think you are remembering correctly.
> It came a few years to early. I remember my shock when I get [1] my OS/2 copy and it was on 10 (yes, ten!) 3.5 inch Floppy Disk
Not so bad, really.
> while Windows needed two (one for main OS, one for some utilities).
No version of Windows came on 1 floppy.
Windows 1.01 took 4 360k disks -- here's a picture:
https://www.firstversions.com/2015/05/microsoft-windows.html https://www.firstversions.com/2015/05/microsoft-windows.html
Windows 2 took 8 360k disks:
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-v2.0 https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-v2.0
Windows 3 took 8 even on DS DD 720kB disks:
https://archive.org/details/windows_3.00_english_with_ms-dos_6.22_eng https://archive.org/details/windows_3.00_english_with_ms-dos...
By Windows 95 it was up to 27 high density 1.4MB disks:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uopb1n/the_27_installation_disks_of_windows_95/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uopb1n/t...
10 is not bad at all for a full preemptive multitasking x86-32 OS with a GUI, IMHO.