Originally Posted By: StevieC
They did the same with Windows 95. OSR2. I can't begin to tell you how many times I installed that operating system. Legally of course.
95a was basically the initial bug fix or "Service Pack" (though not an official term for non-NT OS's), whilst 95B/OSR2 was a major update that included support for FAT32, UDMA, Firewire, Intel's MMX instruction set....etc. It was more of a feature update rather than a "holy [censored] we released junk we better fix it update" like SE was to Windows 98 IMHO LOL
There were of course further supplements to OSR2 like the USB supplement and 2.1 and 2.5, the last which put us at 95C.
Pretty sure I have A, B and C all kicking around the house somewhere
I don't remember 95 being as unstable as Windows 98 was prior to the SE version. But I do remember Windows ME being markedly worse than both of them in that regard, LOL!
ME philosophy: Let's take the newly minted Windows NT5 GUI, slap it on top of Windows 98 and put in a whole pile of untested junk that we'll never fix and release it! It was complete and utter garbage, the worst OS Microsoft has ever released by a wide margin.