"Microsoft promoted Windows 95............ Surely everyone would be eager to sell their new 32-bit versions of Windows applications."
Now correct me if I am wrong but was the 1st iteration of win95 really a 32 bit OS? I know that the file system for win 95 was FAT16 and it was not until the release of win95b (not sure about that naming) that it used FAT32.
So I think FAT16 is a 16 bit file system and FAT32 a 32 bit file system. Can you run a 32 bit OS on a 16 bit file system? Possibly. I suppose the memory registers for the RAM could be 32 bit while the file system on the harddrive is 16 bit.
Can you store 32 bit data in a 16 bit address space? Maybe, but it seems like it would be quite a kludge.
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Windows 95 32bit
Posted by: WarPengi on August 30, 2004 10:40 PMNow correct me if I am wrong but was the 1st iteration of win95 really a 32 bit OS? I know that the file system for win 95 was FAT16 and it was not until the release of win95b (not sure about that naming) that it used FAT32.
So I think FAT16 is a 16 bit file system and FAT32 a 32 bit file system. Can you run a 32 bit OS on a 16 bit file system? Possibly. I suppose the memory registers for the RAM could be 32 bit while the file system on the harddrive is 16 bit.
Can you store 32 bit data in a 16 bit address space? Maybe, but it seems like it would be quite a kludge.
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