was that what they called NT? I don’t really recall now- but my neighbour was really into computing then and tried to get me into computing, but it looked too involved for me at that time- (I was too busy ‘makin money’ at dead end restaurant jobs to take time to learn the computer lol)
Anyway- he had the os on floppys if i recall correctly-
Windows NT was much more robust, and had greater system requirements. It also had compatibility issues with games and DOS mode stuff, especially if you used NTFS. With Windows 2000, true preemptive resource segregation would (mostly) be part of Windows entire lineup.
Windows 95 was on floppies too. I think 98 was the first to be CDROM only...
I never installed 95 much on floppies, I was a netadmin. I found creative ways to get machines connected to ethernet well enough with a clean hard drive, and would just copy all the install files over. Usually, installation was painless then (or, relatively).