A writer for Maximum PC suggested that 'Detroit' and other Windows 95-era names were answers to the question posed by Microsoft's ' Where do you want to go today?' marketing campaign. Along with Win32s, this was one of the first steps towards moving the Windows desktop to a 32-bit code base.įor codenames of some of the internal components of Windows 95, see 'Jaguar', 'Cougar', 'Panther' and 'Stimpy' under § OS components. It included a 32-bit TCP/IP stack (when running on compatible hardware). This release was a mixture of a 32 bit kernel, supporting 32 bit device drivers, and 16-bit Windows for the upper OS layers. Windows 3.1 ( 16-bit) with enhanced networking designed to work particularly well as a client with the new Windows NT. Operating systems Windows 3.x and 9x CodenameĬombined bundle of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.
