• The Windows 95 Test Machine hard disk has been updated with a complete set of Windows 95 files from a “Compact” installation, and first boot has finished, so instead of the initial “Getting ready to run Windows 95 for the first time” splash screen, you’ll see the normal Windows 95 startup screen. The machine is still a bit finicky.
  • The Wine maintenance release 5.0.5 is now available. What's new in this release:. Fixes build failure when v4l is missing; The source is available now.Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
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I ran across this memo on my hard drive at work. It was written in late 1996, when Windows 95 was making serious inroads by claiming to be “almost as good as the Mac.” This was not a good time for Apple: Between authorized Mac clones dividing the Mac OS market and Win 95 siphoning off business users, Apple was about to earn the label “beleagueared”.

I share this as an interesting bit of Mac history. My favorite part is Stewart Alsop stating, “Windows is good enough, but just barely.”

Windows 95 is the operating system that’s now used as a yardstick for what’s possible on modern devices and platforms. We’ve seen Microsoft’s popular OS appear on the Apple Watch, an Android Wear. Windows 95 handles multitasking in the kernel and threads out to programs, but they have to specifically be written for multithreading, while Macintosh programs are by default multithreading and multitasking under Mac OS 8.1. Windows 95 compares to System 7.1 pretty solidly in the way it handles itself, and Windows 98 seems more like an improved 7.1 that acts like System 7.5 without the core kernel support. Windows NT runs on it’s own kernel, just like 7.5 and higher, but didn’t really.

Some things never change.

Memo

To: Company managers
From: Dan Knight
Date: September 6, 1996
Re: Macintosh vs. Windows 95

The September 5, 1996 issue of The Wall Street Journal had an article emphasizing the corporate switch from Macintosh to the Wintel standard. They did not interview anyone who was sticking with the Macintosh or switching to it, which would have led to more balanced reporting. The article is obviously written with an anti-Mac bias, demonstrated by listing corporations reviewing the status of the Mac with those that have abandoned it. Some very large companies, such as FedEx, are still big Macintosh users.

The article contends that Macintosh is no longer state of the art, which is simply not true. Apple is the primary user of the PowerPC family of microprocessors, which consistently outperforms the Pentium and Pentium Pro from Intel. The Mac OS is tightly coupled to the computer itself, allowing a Mac to automatically recognize a new hard drive or see an inserted floppy disk, things the loosely coupled Intel/Windows world cannot do, since Windows is only a pretty face hiding DOS from the user.

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The Journal article points to Stewart Alsop of InfoWorld as a bright example of one Mac user who successfully made the switch. After using Macintosh since 1984, Alsop switched to Windows 95 in July. He has progressively shared his conversion with his readers, as documented in the attached articles. He went from saying, “…I am giving up some things . . . but the plain truth is that I am also getting quite a lot from my transition for giving up what amounts to very little” (July 8, 1996), to “It’s good enough” (July 22), to “Windows is good enough, but just barely.”

Alsop discovered that he has given up more than he bargained for, as documented in these columns. The first shows the “new toy” syndrome: This is as good as my old one, no matter what you say. The second and third columns show a more realistic approach to Windows 95 – but The Wall Street Journal completely ignored these more recent columns.

The only way Windows 95 works is to buy a brand new computer completely set up for your specific needs. Adding a drive, modem, network card, different monitor, memory, and even software is playing Russian roulette with your system. I’ve heard too many horror stories (Jerry Pournelle tells them very well in Byte magazine) about Wintel users making a simple change to their system, then investing hours or days to make everything that had worked before work again.

Or, if you really need a reliable Windows 95 platform, there’s always the add-in card for the Macintosh. Users claim it is easier to work with and more reliable than free standing Windows computers.

Any change from one computer platform to another is a nightmare, as noted in some of the attached articles from the EvangeList mailing list. In the long run, it is far more expensive to run a Windows network – if only because the number of IT employees increases five-fold.

The Macintosh is working very well for all of us. I’m grateful there is no compelling reason for us to look into the chaotic world of Wintel computing, with several different versions of the operating system (Windows 3.1, 95, and NT), multiple chip manufacturers and families (Intel 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro; Cyrix; IBM; and others), and hardware incompatibilities among the multitude of clone makers.

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As you already know, we can boot previous OS or even Mac on Windows or Windows on Mac with the help of Virtual Machines. Windows 95 is one of the most famous OS by Microsoft back in the days. We can find and do dual booting to get Windows 95 but it won’t work that great now. What If I tell you that you don’t need to boot anymore in order to use Windows 95? Yes, it’s true and all thanks to Felix. A superhero from Github. Now you can download Windows 95 as an app for Windows 10, Mac & Linux.

We tried Windows 95 on Windows 10 and it worked perfectly fine. On Windows 10, you have an option of a Standalone Windows 95 app or you can just download and install it via its setup. In my case, I tried both versions but the standalone app was working for smoothly than the other.

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Here is how it looks when you run Windows 95. It brings back old memories and joy.

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You can do all the basic things about it and even play some old school games and much more. It is all thanks to Felix that we are able to enjoy such a nostalgic experience. If you are into it, then learn here is how you can download and install Windows 95 without booting on these OS.

Download Windows 95 on Windows 10

You can download and Install Windows 95 as a Standalone app on Windows 10 and its lower version as well. Just select the version of the app according to your OS.

Just download any of the links above. The size of this app is around 150MB and once downloaded, just double tap to run it. It will take few seconds and once done, it will create Installed Windows 95 shortcut on your desktop. Just open it and get started.

If you don’t want to download a setup of Windows 95 or if it won’t run for you, then you can try the Standalone version for Windows’10 and the link is given below.

Once downloaded, extract the folder from its zip file and from there find and open “Windows95” application and just run it like you want.

Download Windows 95 on macOS

If you want to run Windows 95 on macOS then look no further because we got you covered. Just download the link below from your Mac.

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Once downloaded, double tap the installed .zip file and it will extract the files in it. Now you will be able to run Windows 95 on Mac with ease. Click this to see how it looks on latest macOS.

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You can even download Windows 95 on Linux as well. Download deb, 64-bit or rpm, 64-Bit according to your preference.

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This is how you can download Windows 95 as an app for Windows10, Mac & Linux. If you have any question regarding this guide, feel free to ask us in the comment box below.

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