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It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

MarkSitkowski

Re: W98 was OK, but W95 and USB ..

Win 3.1 actually used a port of the networking code from BSD4.1c for networking. You could write client-server code on a Sun box, transfer it across, add "#include winsock.h", recompile it, and it ran perfectly. You could do the same on Win 95

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