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98 Guy wrote:
BillW50 wrote:

STILL USE XP????

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.

Lack of drivers has only really affected win-98 since maybe early
2006.

More than 75% of the hardware (motherboards, video cards) available at
retail in early 2006 still came with win-98 drivers.

I see. And that would bother me. As early 2006 machines just doesn't cut
it for me today. Although later 2006 to 2008 are my favorite machines. I
am not impressed with newer machines than that.

My own win-98 systems have socket-478 or socket-775 intel pentium
CPU's running anywhere from 2.6 to 3.5 ghz, with 512mb and 1 gb ram,
with SATA hard drives up to 1.5 tb in size, with Nvidia 6200 and 6600
AGP 8x video cards.

You are running W98 with SATA drives? How do you get that too work? And
what good is 512MB or even 1GB of RAM for a W98 machine? Sure I have
added more RAM than 64MB to a W98 machine before. But I never saw any
advantages to using more.

Take a system like that, add KernelEx, and there isin't much software
that you can't run on it.

And lack of application support is probably number two.

KernelEx.

You see, something just doesn't sound right to me. As my experience with
such stuff in the past was they are never quite as great as the claims.
Remember Lindows? Yes impressive, not.

But truth be told, Firefox 2.0.0.20 (the last "win-9x/me" version) can
still correctly render 99% of web pages today. But with KernelEx, you
can go to higher versions of FF. I have Opera 11 when I absolutely
need to access a handful of web-sites, but otherwise FF 2 is my
default browser.

The last year or two, using FF2 I thought it stunk. People say using IE6
is bad at rendering nowadays. Heck that is nothing compared to how bad
pages look under FF2.

Another problem with Windows 98 that really bothered me was
constantly running out of System Resources. How do you
put up with that?

It's no issue, because you're recalling the days back in 1999 - 2001
when your average win-98 system was running with maybe 62 or 128 mb of
ram and had buggy hardware drivers AND application programs. Over the
next 2 to 4 years drivers and software improved.

I simply don't have resource problems - and I have a taskbar with
usually 10 or 20 apps running at any given time.

Yeah I could open 50 Notepads with Windows 3.1 too. I am not sure who
would want to, but you could. Although one Yahoo Instant Messenger would
pull down the whole W98 system. That isn't too useful to me either.

Windows 98 lacked unlimited System Resources and limited USB
support. Time to upgrade.

There are universal USB drivers for win-98.

Really? Since when? That would be really sweet. As it would be wonderful
if I could plug in any FAT32 formatted flash drive and W98 could
actually read it without a special driver for that flash drive.

System resources are no problem.

I don't see how? W98 uses 128kb heaps if I recall correctly. And
enlarging them is said to be only possible with a major OS rewrite. And
I don't see this as being worth anybodies time to do so.

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