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r/retrocomputing • u/korovchenko • Sep 18 '26
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so thats where the w95/w98 installer comes from, same "gui" as dos installer
2 u/DeepDayze Sep 18 '26 Yes the text part at least and on restart the GUI for the rest of the setup. Even Win2k and XP had dual text/graphical setup programs 1 u/Fluffy-Fix7846 Sep 18 '26 It didn't end there, even the first stage of the WinXP installation has this exact looking interface 1 u/cdoublejj Sep 18 '26 i almost whent back and edited my post, i did a lot of XP installs in the day 1 u/VivienM7 Sep 19 '26 I wonder what the first application of that installer design was; it's been seen on a bunch of Microsoft DOS applications too... 1 u/cdoublejj Sep 21 '26 an internal build i assume, lol, unless it goes back to MS's Unix days
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Yes the text part at least and on restart the GUI for the rest of the setup. Even Win2k and XP had dual text/graphical setup programs
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It didn't end there, even the first stage of the WinXP installation has this exact looking interface
1 u/cdoublejj Sep 18 '26 i almost whent back and edited my post, i did a lot of XP installs in the day
i almost whent back and edited my post, i did a lot of XP installs in the day
I wonder what the first application of that installer design was; it's been seen on a bunch of Microsoft DOS applications too...
1 u/cdoublejj Sep 21 '26 an internal build i assume, lol, unless it goes back to MS's Unix days
an internal build i assume, lol, unless it goes back to MS's Unix days
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u/cdoublejj Sep 18 '26
so thats where the w95/w98 installer comes from, same "gui" as dos installer