Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (DOS 5.0 to Windows 7)

[Jagi]

Charting the upgrade path from DOS 5.0 to Windows 7 (video)

If you're old enough to remember tweaking your Autoexec.bat and tackling IRQ conflicts, days when launching Windows required typing "win" at a command prompt, prepare for a blast of nostalgia. YouTuber Andrew Tait (aka "TheRasteri") took a freshly minted VMWare instance and spent what looks to be a full day running through every version of Windows starting with DOS 5.0 and Windows 1.0, which was basically just Explorer paired with one heck of a crummy text editor. From there he dutifully leads us on a crazy upgrade path all the way up to modern times, charting interesting things like how long a version of Doom installed in DOS ran (failed in Windows 2000, but worked again in Windows XP) and when color settings made in Windows 2.0 were finally overwritten (also in 2000). It's 10 minutes in length and is probably the most interesting video you won't watch today.

 

[Jagi]

Re: Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (Win 2.1 to Current)

Of course they left out Windows ME

 

[DragonXJC]

Re: Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (Win 2.1 to Current)

Cool shit ,I feel old because I remember it all.

 

[Jagi]

Re: Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (Win 2.1 to Current)

Cool shit ,I feel old because I remember it all.

yeah... i remember bbs's, supporting a small law department (i worked for the whole company but only a few law department users were running windows 3.1 along side a nexus box and a bloomberg box... all on token ring technology.... removing that shit to install cat5 was a bitch)

25 floppy discs to install ms office only to find that disc 16 was damaged

 

[Rip2dbone]

Re: Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (Win 2.1 to Current)

Of course they left out Windows ME

Yeah what a unstable OS that was

 

[Ryokurin]

Re: Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (Win 2.1 to Current)

Of course they left out Windows ME

If he installed ME he would have had to skip 2000. Upgrading from ME to 2000 was not supported as technically ME was newer than 2000.

 

[CobraKai]

Re: Chain of Fools: An Exploration of Windows Upgrade Procedures (Win 2.1 to Current)

25 floppy discs to install ms office only to find that disc 16 was damaged

Those were the days. The crazy thing is I'm only 33. Imagine how we'll look at shit like Windows 7 etc. in another 10-15 years.