[molasses]

We ran a small drop in cafe and we're excited to run win 2k and xp on something like 600mhz Pentiums.

Someone donated an old pc. We turned it on and it had win 3.1 on and it booted in a blip. We looked at each other in amazement. It's odd what you forget. And at the time I preferred the 3.1 style to 95, though tooling was pretty horrible. Changing video modes for example.

Win 95 also didn't originally come with TCP/IP from what I remember. Pre internet os, that you wrestled with to get internet support on.

Later service pack version came bundled with the web client stuff.

Networking was very hit and miss back then.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Windows 95 had TCP/IP from the very first version, inherited and enhanced from Windows for Workgroups.

The original retail gold package didn't have Internet Explorer included, so it only had the TCP/IP stack if you chose it in the install process. Every OEM version had mandatory TCP/IP and Internet Explorer however (the OEM RTM came out a bit later and so there was time to squeeze IE in).

[molasses]

So many versions. I just remember wrestling with floppies getting dial up networking on a wIn 95 laptop.

[richardfey]

It didn't come with USB, you needed the B version for that.