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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

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304 points mooreds | 3 comments | 17 Nov 24 19:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source
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xeromal ◴[17 Nov 24 20:41 UTC] No.42167034[source]▶
I love that little nugget of info at the end. You could originally run excel standalone without an OS and it came with windows 2.1 bundled
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simonjgreen ◴[17 Nov 24 22:28 UTC] No.42167941[source]▶
Most interesting part of the whole thing for me! The later WinPE environments are some of the most overlooked computer environments out there but they were absolutely everywhere. EPOS, ATMs, digital signage, vending machines.

And of course the subject of so many BSOD photos…

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1. KerrAvon ◴[17 Nov 24 23:31 UTC] No.42168302[source]▶
None of that stuff was pre-NT, though. Windows 2.1 was not something you'd want to deploy on an ATM.
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2. simonjgreen ◴[18 Nov 24 06:54 UTC] No.42170361[source]▶
Of course, it was a related thought
3. egorfine ◴[18 Nov 24 21:48 UTC] No.42177472[source]▶
FWIW lots of ATM happily ran OS/2 1.x.