Joe S, Try mariner’s links and see if they help you.
mariner, there convoluted reason is their Marketing Department. They decided to call Windows ’95 that, instead of Windows 4.0, because of the terrible reputation that MS-DOS 4.0 earned itself. And if they called the next version by its logical number, Windows 9.0, they were probably afraid people would think Windows is getting old and start thinking Linux or Mac or whatever else.