Windows 95 Was Too Fat to Install Itself So Needed Help From the Slimmer 3.1
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The article discusses how Windows 95 relied on MS-DOS from Windows 3.1 for installation due to its own size constraints, highlighting an interesting aspect of the OS's history.
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