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Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)

TheRasteri · demo · Watch on YouTube

History of computingDemoscene & retrocomputingOperating systems & kernels

What it is

TheRasteri installs MS-DOS and Windows 1.0, then upgrades in place through nearly every Windows version up to Windows 7, checking which programs survive. Even Doom from 1993 still runs at the end.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as evidence of Microsoft's backward compatibility and of upgrade engineering done well.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's a sight to behold.”

    Upgrading through every version of Windows

    slmbrhrt, 2011-10 · Recommendation · in “Imagine if your house had Windows”

  2. “I remember gaining quite an appreciation for all the work put in over time in Windows”

    Gave appreciation for the work and complexity in Windows

    alexsb92, 2013-03 · Recommendation · in “Building Photoshop 1.0”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: windows, in-place upgrade, ms-dos, compatibility, retrocomputing

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