Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...

The setup file for Windows 95, which was released in 1995, consisted of three types of programs: MS-DOS, 16-bit, and 32-bit. When upgrading from MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 was installed along the way.

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...