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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: 0.275s | 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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ssl-3 ◴[18 Nov 24 04:06 UTC] No.42169633[source]▶
IIRC, the HP Scanner IIcx also came with a copy of Windows 2.something.
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1. ssl-3 ◴[18 Nov 24 06:48 UTC] No.42170327[source]▶
(too late to edit, but the autoderp had its own ideas when I very deliberately tapped out "Scanjet" above.)