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Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? (timemachiner.io)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it.

"The Windows That Never Was"

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[–] macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! It didn't come off as a dig at all. Trust me, I thought about it and spent about an hour on Internet Archive looking for a version that ran on its site. But nothing was there and I learned the hard way last year that Virtual Box is still in the Intel era, so it's useless for me.

I did look into UTM as others are saying, but based on its description it may not be able to run an OS that far back. Something to look into down the line.

Either way, again, thanks for reading my work. I really do appreciate it. There's some other old Microsoft goodies I've written in the past, like this commercial introducing Excel.