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The article missed the best part, you could install Windows 2000 from 4 floppy disks!

I've used it a lot in my younger years, it only was manageable after SP4. God those updates took forever

The floppies only bootstrapped an environment to install the rest of the OS from a larger storage media, though.

Even Linux did that back in the day. CD-ROM boot was far from universally supported, let alone USB mass storage. Boot floppies were the most reliable way of starting up an external OS.

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