Windows installation diskettes - photos

[WmRMeyers]

It’s likely an apocryphal anecdote, but I read that there was a bug in the Win95 code that would cause the machine to crash after 49 days. It was purportedly never observed because the OS wasn’t stable enough to run that long.

Good times.

Pretty sure that was BS. I had a Win95 computer running constantly for over a year just to see if it could. Back in those days, I was a power user of Windows and MS-DOS. Pretty sure I still have the Windows 3.0 disks around here, somewhere. And pulled the dual TEAC (IIRC) 3.5/5.25 drive off the shelf this afternoon to get at other stuff I was looking through.

[nova_robotics]

Pretty sure that was BS. I had a Win95 computer running constantly for over a year just to see if it could. Back in those days, I was a power user of Windows and MS-DOS. Pretty sure I still have the Windows 3.0 disks around here, somewhere. And pulled the dual TEAC (IIRC) 3.5/5.25 drive off the shelf this afternoon to get at other stuff I was looking through.

It's real. GetTickCount() would overflow at 2^32 milliseconds. 49.7 days. Vtdapi.vxd would hang the machine. It was patched some time toward the end of Windows 98. You might not have had software using Vtdapi.vxd, or maybe you didn't have that installed.

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