On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:
Microsoft released WIN 95 on this day 30 years ago.
Its first retail availability was August 24.
It was a game changer
for the average PC computer user but more important than Windows 3.1? Not
so sure.
I made a laser photoplotter that needed DMA to send the
raster bits to the laser. I wrote that code in Win95 user
mode (didn't have the SDK to create a real driver.) But,
that locked me in to either 96 or 98 at the latest.
I have a circa 2000 pick and place machine that runs Win
95. It has a board that interfaces the ISA bus to a 68K VME
CPU that runs the motion hardware. Same issue, all this
runs in user mode.
Jon
