• Valmond@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn’t need a driver to be manually installed and configured.

      Windows 98 I guess.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        Windows 98 SE, maybe. We didn’t gain much traction there until about Win2k or XP.

        Windows 98 in its original flavor didn’t even support USB mass storage devices out of the box without drivers. Hands up everyone who remembers having to carry around one of those tiny driver CDs that came in the box with every single Sandisk Cruzer for a couple of years? Yeah? How quickly we forget.

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        2 months ago

        My recollection is that USB on windows was kind of a dumpster fire until XP. Or maybe that was just printers in general.