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Re:Windows93 by roelschroeven on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:05AM (#22465545)
Nah, I don't think so, Windows 95 was codenamed Chicago before it was released. I can't remember ever having seen the name "Windows 93" mentioned in that time.
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Re:Windows93 by anticensor on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:15AM (#22465672)
See The Old New Thing, by Raymond Chen: https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=wYrCitbs5PQC , where he says "Windows 95 was originally Windows 93, after all."
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Re:Windows93 by roelschroeven on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:28AM (#22465807)
You're right, apparently, and I was wrong. Wikipedia says so too:

> So the development of Windows "Chicago" was started and, as it was planned for a late 1993 release, became known as Windows 93 which was also known as Windows 4.0.

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Re:Windows93 by chungy on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:12AM (#22465629)
You wouldn't have. It was still being called "Windows 4.0" until very close to its release in 1995.
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