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		thaliaarchi 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating syste... The current article[0] says: > Excel 2.0 was released a month before Windows 2.0, and the installed base of Windows was so low at that point in 1987 that Microsoft had to bundle a runtime version of Windows 1.0 with Excel 2.0. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel

hulitu 3 days ago [–]

Did Windows 1.0 run without DOS ?

icedchai 2 days ago | [–]

No. No version until NT ran without DOS. Even if you installed Win95 from scratch, DOS was there, bundled.

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