It's loading crap into memory I don't need and it's not pure DOS, because Zone 66 keeps giving me pmode errors, indicating Windows is leaving part of itself around in the "DOS mode" option.<BR><BR>So, ...

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time, PC users were presented with a dull text interface and no graphics. DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team decided to ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

The Pocket 386 is a tiny laptop computer with a 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard, and a body that’s small enough that you might actually be able to fit it into a (large) pocket. It’s also a device ...

Windows 95 was officially launched 25 years ago yesterday and to mark the occasion former Microsoft engineer Rico Mariani has detailed the release in its historical context, explaining why it was the ...