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		7952 on Sept 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hardware is dead And windows 95 was a terrible desktop operating system. But it still sold. The people who are going to buy this won't care.

betterth on Sept 18, 2012 | [–]

It wasn't crappy at the time. For those of us used to Windows 3.x it was amazing.

This is more akin to selling Windows 95 on machines after Windows 98SE was already out. At that point, yes, 95 was considered terrible.

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