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Which versions of Windows do you own , Not just legal

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  • nighticenightice
    Steve - You have Janus?
  • JackTheStripperJackTheStripper
    On a CD somewhere with Chicago if I can find it.
  • SlashSlash
    What is Janus? Is it NT 3.1 pre-alpha?
  • nighticenightice
    Windows 3.0/3.1, I forget which. An NT 3.1 alpha would be interesting.
  • SlashSlash
    Someone has it... don't remember who exactly
  • QQ
    I've seen (possibly faked?) NT 3.1 Beta screenshots. I'd LOVE to have a NT 3.1 beta on WinWorld, it would be a significant "scoop".

    -Q
  • SlashSlash
    Well, I heard there was NT 3.1 Pre-Alpha dated back to 1990. Have you seen something like?
  • QQ
    OS/2?

    -Q
  • nighticenightice
    http://24.184.87.14:81/OSArchive/microsoft.htm

    Damn...lots of OSes...notes:

    - There may have been a retail NT 3.0
    - Nobody has been able to find a complete Janus Beta 1, disk 2 is being recreated
    - Floppy OSR2?
    - Retail OSR2? (95D)
    - Unknown build number 95E?
    - Windows 1.00 was recalled due to a severe bug
    - 0.99 apparently did exist, was a very rare beta
    - NT 3.1 had server and AS?
    - NT 3.55 - limited retail
    - NT4 had AS?
    - What's with all these extra builds after retail, anyway?
    - NT 4.5? There's something new
    - Ever heard of Windows 2000 Cluster Server?
    - Neptune 5000 must be the holy grail of beta collecting (besides janus disk 2)
    - XP 5.1.2526 plays much better in Q3 than any other build :P
    - They must have been working on Whistler/XP since before Win2k (or before dec. 1999, when 2k went RTM)
    - Hasn't been updated in a while, only goes up to Longhorn 4051
    - Very incomplete dates
  • BODBOD
    Unknown build number 95E?

    what happened to 95D?
  • SlashSlash
    Interesting.
    So, there was NT 3.0...
    What are xp builds later than 2600?
    0.99? I thought that was a fake...

    So, I think this checklist arouses more questions than we had before.
  • nighticenightice
    BOD wrote:
    Unknown build number 95E?

    what happened to 95D?

    That was the retail OSR2 (tho the list should say that OSR2 are OEM only)
  • BODBOD
    OSR2 was b and c
  • nighticenightice
    Um, did you actually read the list? ;)
  • BODBOD
    /me reads list.....

    hmmm....
    Keyboard arrows now function in this release

    LOL
  • QQ
    OMFG! 2000 for AlphA!!

    NT 3.55, Windows 3.22... There are some rare softs out there that I would lovvve to find ::D!!!!!

    -Q
  • nighticenightice
    2000 had an Alpha edition until Compaq dropped support.
  • SlashSlash
    I bet that nearly a half of that list could possibly be a fake...
  • nighticenightice
    I suppose if you talk to/bribe the right people you can get any info....
  • QQ
    So they KNOW that ppl have these rare versions, but why doesn't anyone else have them? Who are these ppl with things like "NT 3.55", "Neptune 5000", "Windows .99" and so forth?

    -Q
  • SlashSlash
    They are special Microsoft's beta testers, and they signed a contract they won't share these OSes...
  • QQ
    Hmm, you'd think someone'd break it sooner or later. I guess it's just waiting.

    -Q
  • SlashSlash
    I still think that it can be a fake
  • nighticenightice
    http://www.angelfire.com/comics/slammy_ ... firmed.txt

    This appears to be a list of the versions confirmed to exist.
  • SlashSlash
    nightice wrote:
    http://www.angelfire.com/comics/slammy_dunken/pf_confirmed.txt

    This appears to be a list of the versions confirmed to exist.
    That seems closer to truth... No NT 3.52's and so on...
  • QQ
    I think Fish has a more updated version of that.

    -Q
  • SlashSlash
    Fish's version dates back to 06/08/03, and that is obviously newer
  • QQ
    Hmm, I seemed to remember a higher version number on his...

    -Q
  • SlashSlash
    Possibly I'm wrong...
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