Hey look, someone 3D printed a whole bunch of save icons.
bruh
I remember using win 3.11 and my dad would tell me to close windows I am not using so the machine does not grind to a halt. Good times. Windows could to nothing back then. Minesweeper maybe.
Before Win95/NT, Windows was basically just a skin on top of DOS, and DOS had never been designed with multitasking in mind. That meant that (with some exceptions, like 8-bit DOS programs running in virtual 8086 mode on a 386) for multiple programs to play nice with each other within the GUI, they had to “cooperatively multitask,” that is, they had to be programmed to share a common memory address space, and to yield back control of the processor to Windows periodically, so that the other open programs could get some execution cycles in before they had to yield in turn. As you can imagine, this didn’t work particularly well in practice, with software commonly forgetting to yield back to the task scheduler and pooping all over shared memory on a regular basis. Windows 95 was a quantum leap forward, with preemptive multitasking and independent address space for each running process.
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I know people who would love a job like that and I hate them. Hate them so fucking much.
This would be soul crushing to me even drunk and stoned.
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Disk 1 of 3711
“fuck”
Disk 3710 is missing
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Bzzzt: error. (R)etry/(A)bort/(F)ail/(J)ust die?
I don’t even want to imagine how long the first update would take on that 56K Flex modem…
Does anyone remember the game Syndicate? When it came out, I didn’t have a CD-ROM drive yet. But I saw there was a floppy version I could install, so I got that.
It was on 19 floppies.
Longest, most painful install ever. Great game though.
Some Microsoft Office installations were 40+ diskettes. Thankfully, this kind of nonsense was quickly replaced by CD-ROMs.
I recall buying a massive box for C++ at a computer show in the 90s, but I can’t recall if it came with dozens of discs and/or whether it came with a massive printed reference book 😂
Now we gotta do this with Windows 11.
You better have at least 4x as many floppys at your disposal.
What do you think they’d do at an airport if you tried to check these in? Just how elastic is our Constitution?
Well, first you’d have to explain to the TSA guard why you have so many “save-file buttons,” and after you crumble to dust you can easily drift away to catch your flight
Is this a real thing
It absolutely is not real, or at least it’s not a real Microsoft product. 8.1 was never released on floppy.
It’s possible that this is a bootleg release targeting an emerging market somewhere. You can use the Windows DISM tool to split the Windows image file (WIM) into split files. Just have the first disk format the target drive, set up a temp folder, run a process that’ll wait for each disk to be inserted and copy over the split file when it is, then finally start the installation command when all have been copied over.
…or it’s just a funny image.
