People need to go back and use Win 3.1 or MacOS 7.x to realize what a leap forward Win95 was. MacOS 7.x didn't even have preemptive multitasking! The start menu and task bar made their debut and immediately anchored the whole UI. Since then, Windows has made incremental advances (with the occasional step backwards), but no change has been nearly so radical. OS X would not have been possible without the influence of win95. We're still living in the Win95 age.

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cosmic_cheese 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

OS X inherited its multitasking model from NeXTSTEP, which predates Win95 by several years.

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LtWorf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You have to use windows 95 with a computer from 1995 to realise how painfully slow it was compared to windows 3.

	▲	hollandheese an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Windows 3.11 loads in less than a blink of an eye on my Pentium MMX, while Windows 98 takes at least a minute to boot. This is with a 8 GB CF card as the HDD too, so the I/O is going as fast as possible.