• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t know if they reclassified it at some point, but back on those days 3.5 was titled “Windows for Workgroups” and 4.0 was the first to be known simply as “NT”.

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      5 months ago

      3.11 was WfW, and ran on top of DOS just like 3.1 did.

      NT 3.51 used the NT kernel, and (mostly) looked like 3.1/3.11 on the surface. NT 4 used the NT kernel, and (mostly) looked like Win95.

      Win 95/98/Me also ran on DOS, though it was more tightly integrated than it was in the 3.1 days.

      Win 2k and everything after was based on NT.

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        5 months ago

        I remember the early win 3.11 to win 95 days when it was still easier to exit to dos to install a lot of software because no one was writing windows interfaces for anything.

        Now I’m wondering if I still have my Doom .WADs saved somewhere…