@foone
When Win95 was first released, I was doing PC sales, repairs, and support with a small independent PC shop. One of our business customers was an insurance broker, with roughly a dozen PCs on an ethernet network.
They had us upgrade their 3.11 machines to Win95. Boss was a bit of a technophile. But like businesses everywhere, whoever spec'd the employee machines skimped on everything. They were 386s (DX, at least, not SX) with 4MB of RAM.
To say Win95 crawled on those machines is an understatement. Literal minutes - like 5 - to boot up to usability. Alt-tabbing to switch applications gave a 5-10s pause before the task switcher appeared, never mind the actual switched-to application. It could easily take a minute to switch between apps.
And the boss was thrilled. ?!?!? I know the employees sure weren't.
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