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by M95D 370 days ago
Win9x was stable and reliable. It was the drivers that were not. WHQL wasn't invented yet.

I'm sure ATC systems were properly tested, including the drivers. Don't compare that with cheap consumer PCs that we had.

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Windows 95 allowed programs to disable system interrupts. No protection on cli instruction. Careful with those rose-colored glasses.
So what?

ATC systems are definitely not going to have users installing random software at any time.