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Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in :

I still use Win98.

How? While I still have a warm spot in my heart for Windows 3.1, 95,
and 98, although I cannot use them for about the last 10 years or
so. Lack of drivers is probably the worst. And lack of application
support is probably number two. Another problem with Windows 98 that
really bothered me was constantly running out of System Resources.
How do you put up with that?


Easily. Run code that does not wastefully consume them, and which
returns them properly to be used again.

I don't see that working for me. As I need Microsoft OE6, Microsoft Word
2000, and the Windows Media Player v9 at least. And those by themselves
were enough to drain all of the W98 System Resources.

W98 had a huge base of software. Shortage was never the problem.
Drivers can be a problem, but even there ways can be found. Sound
Forge and Cakewalk and many other things like LnS firewall all depend
on their own drivers). Same goes for decent hardware, the maker
usually supports it with their opwn driver. If maker doesn't care
enough to do that, it's a BAD idea to use their hardware anyway.

Yeah you are probably right. But I have been down those roads many times
in my youthful days. But now I am older and I rather take the easier
route. There was a time in my life when it was a big thrill to do the
things that the experts said couldn't be done. Sure it wasn't easy, but
it was fun. Although it still isn't easy, although it is no longer fun
either. :-(

Last but not at ALL least, W98 SE can be small, stable, fast, and
it's a 32 bit OS with an extremely powerful API. The advances from
W98 SE till now are small, incremental, compared to the jump between
DOS and W98 SE. W98 won't ever become useless, even if the distant
future sees lots of people still around with decent living standards,
and fast computers that make today's stuff look like 1980's gear,
there will still be people running W98 on a virtual machine because
it does what they want.

The only current development likely to make W98 anythign like
obsolete is the huge growth in ARM chips instead of i386 chips. And
this doesn't apply to desktop machines.

I would love to run Windows 3.1, 95, and 98 once again. And I am not
talking about under a virtual machine. As that just isn't the same thing
to me. But I don't see myself getting too much done with them anymore.
As the XP world allows me to do what they can, plus tons more. ;-)

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3