[HN Gopher] Why didn't Win 95 setup use a miniature version of W...
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       Why didn't Win 95 setup use a miniature version of Win 95 as its
       fallback GUI?
        
       Author : soheilpro
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2025-03-18 16:34 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (devblogs.microsoft.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (devblogs.microsoft.com)
        
       | jmkni wrote:
       | Another article where my first thought before even clicking the
       | link was "I bet this was written by Raymond Chen" :)
        
         | theragra wrote:
         | Same
        
       | theandrewbailey wrote:
       | > A technical reason is that the miniature version of Windows 3.1
       | compressed to only 441,906 bytes, or just under a third of the
       | capacity of a single floppy disk.
       | 
       | Microsoft used DMF, a custom format, for Windows 95 install
       | floppies that held 1680 KB, so 441 KB would be about a quarter of
       | one.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
        
         | wtallis wrote:
         | The disk you boot from cannot use a non-standard format, at
         | least not for the entire disk.
        
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