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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

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305 points mooreds | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 19:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.465s | source
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reddalo ◴[17 Nov 24 21:02 UTC] No.42167210[source]▶
Don't modern versions of Windows do the same? For example, I clearly remember that the Windows 10 installer first launches a Windows 7-like environment.
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zokier ◴[17 Nov 24 22:01 UTC] No.42167711[source]▶
Aren't all modern (>xp) windowses just NT6 under the hood? Is there such clear delineation between 7 and 10 for example?
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feldrim ◴[17 Nov 24 22:11 UTC] No.42167815[source]▶
It continued as 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. But the NT kernel revamped for Windows 10. And they aligned the version numbers at that point. Windows 10 and 11 are both NT 10. The kernel has many differences within 6.x let alone the big leap to 10.
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1. nntwozz ◴[17 Nov 24 22:53 UTC] No.42168100[source]▶
Just like macOS was Mac OS X (10) for a very long time, then they moved to 11 with Big Sur but it's really only in name.

macOS Sequoia is version 15, whoever reaches 20 first wins right!?

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2. cozzyd ◴[18 Nov 24 00:19 UTC] No.42168560[source]▶
Joke's on them, I'm running Fedora