'95 was a vintage year for computing for sure.
Pentium processors got common usage, E-mail communication taking off, and Windows '95 got released (20 years ago this week)
Happy 20th Windows 95
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- KVRAF
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- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
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- Pick Me Pick me!
- 9684 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from a state of confusion
Much of the software was still for DOS.. be it games or trackers. And Win95 was crash happy whereas DOS was rock solid.
I do NOT miss the days of jumper pins and IRQ conflicts.
I do NOT miss the days of jumper pins and IRQ conflicts.
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- KVRAF
- 3261 posts since 27 Mar, 2010 from UK
VitaminD wrote:Much of the software was still for DOS.. be it games or trackers. And Win95 was crash happy whereas DOS was rock solid.
I do NOT miss the days of jumper pins and IRQ conflicts.
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- KVRist
- 441 posts since 30 Apr, 2008 from St Louis, MO
Happy to report my Twelvetone Systems Cakewalk 3 transitioned glitch free to win 95.
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- KVRist
- 275 posts since 24 Feb, 2015
I had Windows 95B and I was able to install some Windows 98 stuff into it without problems.
I remember when Windows 98 SE came out, there was some contention that Microsoft was going to start integrating too much internet/web functionality directly into the desktop. Although that did happen, Windows XP SP2 was pretty stable and you didn't have to do all the Cubase/Cubasis optimizations (but a whole bunch of other DAW optimizations instead). I do remember reading a book about IRQ's and that really helped me to set up a stable system via the BIOS.
I actually kind of miss the Windows 9x days. There was some good freewares made during those times like Tuareg by brambos.
I remember when Windows 98 SE came out, there was some contention that Microsoft was going to start integrating too much internet/web functionality directly into the desktop. Although that did happen, Windows XP SP2 was pretty stable and you didn't have to do all the Cubase/Cubasis optimizations (but a whole bunch of other DAW optimizations instead). I do remember reading a book about IRQ's and that really helped me to set up a stable system via the BIOS.
I actually kind of miss the Windows 9x days. There was some good freewares made during those times like Tuareg by brambos.
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- KVRAF
- 2183 posts since 10 Jul, 2006 from Tampa
I started at IBM end-user support in '94. We were on the "front lines" of fielding Windows 95 issues from people who didn't know why WordPerfect wasn't so "perfect" under Windows 95. (We told them it was a Microsoft plot to destroy WordPerfect. And unless any of you can prove otherwise, it's the truth.)Numanoid wrote:'95 was a vintage year for computing for sure.
Pentium processors got common usage, E-mail communication taking off, and Windows '95 got released (20 years ago this week)
Cakewalk Audio 9 was...usable for me in Windows 95B. I finally got a chance to start adding audio samples to tunes!
Good times...good times....
Steve
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- KVRist
- 98 posts since 28 Oct, 2002
Because of their myriad problems, I was very happy to avoid the Win95 editions, and stay on Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (along with Win32s and WinG) until Win98SE was released.
