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> W95 was a terrible POS

In their defense, it wasn't really designed for cash registers anyway.

Yes, but when you market yourself as a general purpose OS, someone is bound to use it somewhere they deem to be a general purpose. Not to mention it's easier for lay people to program things for Win95 than other OS due to availability and also due to VB.

When I was a kid and saw an out of order POS was showing Win95 desktop (could be NT. When did NT start having start menu?), I thought it was cool. I wanted to play Solitaire on it while waiting for my mom to finish paying at some other counter.

Whoosh! I believe the comment you replied to was a dad-joke level double entendre.

> When did NT start having start menu?

Windows NT 4 in 1996 had a similar shell to Windows 95.

> Whoosh! I believe the comment you replied to was a dad-joke level double entendre.

That was a master level dad joke. I didn't realize either until reading your comment.

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