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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that was a pretty neat thing. I remember looking through the .cab files from the Windows 95 installation disks and seeing files that didn't belong in Windows 95 itself. There was even a version of the "Cardfile" utility, a simplistic data organizer that was part of Windows 3.x, but not 95.