On 19 October 2011 10:18, Michael Watterson wrote: > > The ONLY significant difference between a fully configured 1993+ > WFWG3.11 was Explorer and even on Win95 originally no USB and no TCP/IP > as standard (it was the SAME 32bit TCP/IP as the addon for WFWG and the > 32 bit paging/disk access/driver/"virtual memory" almost identical to > the 32bit option for WFWG. > > Rubbish. There were quite a lot of differences between windows 3.11 and windows 95. The most obvious and important one was that Windows 95 had preemptive multitasking, 3.11 did not. Plug and play was new to 95. Windows NT is where the modern win32 api came from. But the marketplace was not ready for it in 1995. The single biggest constraint microsoft are alway= s bound by is to retain as much backwards compatibility with previous softwar= e and hardware as possible. In 1995 the world was not ready for Windows NT. What makes an operating system "good"? Is it "technical excellence", or is it that it meets the needs of customers and sells well? I think the latter, and, so did the marketplace - Windows 95 remains one of the best selling operating systems microsoft has ever created. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .