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The Windows 95 Chime Just Earned a Spot in the National Recording Registry
The 6-second start-up anthem joins “My Heart Will Go On” and the ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack as “one of the defining sounds of ...
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The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
So, if you're a Windows user today you owe something both to Windows 95 and that start-up sound. To me, it was the sound of adventures beginning on my screen ... Best gaming PC: The top pre ...
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Microsoft's Windows 95 startup sound has been immortalized in the Library of Congress
The US Library of Congress has decided to immortalize the Windows 95 startup sound in the National Recording Registry.
I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap ... GUI to not only stand on an equal footing with the Mac but surpass it. Windows 95 was what millions of PC owners were ...
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Microsoft veteran shares Windows NT, 3.1, 95 Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) origin story0 0
On the second half of July 2024, one of the biggest Windows ... how their PC behaves. Up next, a year later in 1993, we had the Windows NT 3.1 BSOD which was the first true blue screen of death ...
There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics performance using GDI, 3D graphics performance using OpenGL, and disk speed ...
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You can now benchmark a Windows 95 PC with CrystalMark Retro
TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.