WIN 95 UPGRADE

[mmscorpion]

U can't change W95 to W98 directly. If W97 to W98, its OK. Clean installation is the best way i think..

[BC_Programmer]

there is no windows 97...


And you CAN.

Windows 98 can be upgraded directly over Windows 95 or windows 3.1. I've done it, so don't try to debate otherwise.

[JJ 3000]

Windows 97. The forgotten version.

[quaxo]

not really, the original post:

here it says they ran it on a 486. complete lie.

Yeah, here's an interesting article about some guys who tried to push the minimum requirements for XP. They did manage to get it work with a Pentium Overdrive, but never managed on a 486 alone.

http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

there is no windows 97...

Actually, there was. Originally, Windows 98 was to be Windows 97 (since its release was expected in 97 and not 98). While it was never publicly released, it did exist. A copy of an early version of Windows 97 was somehow leaked and floating around the pirate markets here in Asia. Originally codenamed Windows Nashville, it was also known as Windows 96 for a time (as it was originally to be released as an upgrade to 95 available in 1996).

-=EDIT=-
Managed to find an old news article on it.
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/16633/windows-97-in-beta.html

And another:
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/16639/windows-97-alpha-released-no-active-themes.html

[BC_Programmer]

wait a second- windows 98 was memphis... 

[quaxo]

wait a second- windows 98 was memphis... 

Right, it was changed to Memphis when the release of 97 was scrapped, redeveloped, and finally released in 1998 as Windows 98. It would be my guess that the version on the pirated markets here was more or less 95 with the 97 beta upgrade. I've never found any clear explanation of exactly what the plan was or why 97 got scrapped. However, a lot of the planned features for 97, like Active Desktop, finally went into 98. There are a lot of stories out there about how all of this went down, hard to tell which are accurate though.

[quaxo]

After a bit more digging, seems I need to correct myself.

Nashville was to be Windows 96. This is the version that was canceled.

Memphis was to be Windows 97, but the release date was pushed into 1998, therefore the name was changed.

As to the version on the pirate markets, while labeled 97, it's unclear if those were modded 95 versions with the 96 upgrade or early versions of 98 when it was still called 97. As I don't have a copy of it, I can't look at it and see.

I did see a few days ago that Windows 7 RC is already on the pirate market though. That was fast. But that's how that stuff goes over here.

[BC_Programmer]

whew, I was confused there.

a lot of MSDN articles from as early as late 96 were referring to "memphis".

I remember seeing some scattered references to "nashville" but never really considered what it was.

[macdad-]

wait a second- windows 98 was memphis... 

And Windows ME was Knoxville   

It's a joke:

Somebody else wrote "Hey, we don't talk about your motherboard!" In Hispanic cultures people, especially teenagers, often trade insults about each other's mothers. A "placa madre" is a motherboard in Spanish. "Y tu mama también" is a teen expression common in Mexico which means "and your mama also". It is also the title of a well known Mexican film starring Gael Garcia Bernal. I combined the 2 phrases.

So its basically Ditto in Spanish?

[Dias de verano]

So its basically Ditto in Spanish?

It works like this: someone says "You suck!" or the equivalent, (either in fun or seriously), and you say "And so does your mother!"

There is a whole genre of "Yo mama" insults that Americans know about.

[squall_01]

   that was an old fad.

[Aegis]

...but quite alive and well in some circles.   

[squall_01]

its like saing that the 70 will come back.

[macdad-]

It works like this: someone says "You suck!" or the equivalent, (either in fun or seriously), and you say "And so does your mother!"

There is a whole genre of "Yo mama" insults that Americans know about.

Ahh..I'll keep that in mind.

But anywho, the question for the original intent of this topic was answered earlier so we should lock it or again like Patio said "Let it die naturally" 

[squall_01]

That we should.