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Yes ME was MS Dos 8 and 95/98 was MS Dos 7/7.1. Oh boy here we go with another Microsoft numbering scheme. I think 6.22 was the last full stand alone version you could get on floppies.
lol, looks like this thread has been hijacked and is now heading down memory lane. :)
Yeah the original floppies really were floppy weren't they. I seem to remember seeing some that were bigger than 5.25 too. I saw one nearly as big as the old vinyl LP. Something else some of the younger members might not remember.
I was around before floppies existed. My mother was a programmer for the state, back in the 70s when external storage meant a warehouse full of punch cards
ME was a strange OS in it's positioning I actually went from a mix of 98, 98SE and NT4 to a consolidated Win 2000 system mix, of Server and Client machines.
For a long time I spent my time downgrading systems that came with XP installed to either W2K or NT4. This was for compatibility reasons and because XP needed too to much hardware . There was also the dumbing down of the interface and reduced included functionality that came with XP Home. Also of course professional people hated the plastic, cartoon graphic, interface.
The whole Vista hating thing was just Deja-Vu to me ,
In fact I remember users saying all the same things when they moved from DOS to Windows
I can remember loading the operating system onto ,I think it was an IBM something, with a long perforated tape. You wrote your programs on cards. They weren't punch cards though you put pencil marks in little boxes on the cards. One card for each command.
My first home PC was a collection of hand me down parts that nobody wanted. A 486 DX2 66 I think, running Dos 5 and windows 3.11. The next one was a loaner from work with NT4 workstation that I eventually got to keep. As time went on I ran windows 95, 98, 2k, XP and now 7. Only skipping ME and Vista, some of you will know why.
As far as I was told, it is just vista but with features people wanted to see on vista