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A Microsoft engineer revealed Windows 95's smart way for spotting installers: It just guessed
An educated guess, but a guess nonetheless ...
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has confirmed what we all suspected about Windows 95: it guessed when a setup program ...
I usually stick to the Gaming forum, SB and Lounge, but I'm having problems now that I need help with. If I had bothered to research the process before actually DOING it, I would have been fine, but I ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN
Windows 95 didn’t detect installers, it ‘guessed’ based on the file name, says veteran dev
Microsoft's Raymond Chen describes the string-matching heuristic behind the OS's system-file recovery.
I've been fighting with my IBM thinkpad 355CS which I am trying to install windows 95 on. Since I'm the only person in the world with a 355Cs its a 486 SX (no math copro) 20 megs RAM, 160 meg HD and a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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