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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

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304 points mooreds | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 19:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pram ◴[17 Nov 24 21:05 UTC] No.42167241[source]▶
The "mini" Windows 3.1 it came with was pretty much fully functional though, you could literally boot directly into PROGMAN.EXE as the main Windows 95 shell.
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Dalewyn ◴[17 Nov 24 21:36 UTC] No.42167526[source]▶
Program Manager is a shell and was actually included in Windows all the way through XP SP2 when it was phased out. You can probably run it in Windows Vista through 10 if you copy the .exe over, too.
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1. joombaga ◴[17 Nov 24 23:49 UTC] No.42168407[source]▶
Maybe! Is the XP version 32-bit? 64-bit windows never supported 16-bit programs.