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Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1

Microsoft engineer explains why the old OS had to babysit its flashy successor Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has answered the question of why Microsoft insisted on running up a miniature ...

The ingenious reason why Windows 95 setup chose mini Windows 3.1 over 32-bit options

Some users were keen on finding out whether the MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 versions could install a miniature Windows 95 instead ...