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minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·3 months agoWordPad didn’t exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.
minus-squareADTJ@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoIn Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoDefinitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.
WordPad didn’t exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.
In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?
Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.