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Seriously cosidering reverting back to Win98
IG-88:
--- Quote from: Dexter on November 23, 2009, 06:04:58 pm ---Just make sure there are win98 hardware drivers for EVERYTHING in your machine before you install it. Better still, install windows 98 inside a VM on your box and get the best of both worlds.
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I got myself an "improved" version of win98 sometime back that has driverpacks that install with the O/S. Has alot of other niftys too. I have been using it to test older computers that I like to put emus or dos games or whatever on. Works like a champ and is rock solid stable. Kinda the reason I've been thinking about using it full time. Silly probably. ::)
@ protokatie: Why don't you like pre-NT?
protokatie:
I didn't say I didn't like pre-NT, just that there is little or no reason to go back that far. XP is very efficient and still has new drivers coming out for it for new hardware. I use TinyXP on some of my machines and it has a similar footprint as win98, but with better services, better support, and much better multitasking. The only down side to using NT based OS's is that you lose full DOS support, so some DOS only games won't work right.
shmokes:
The task bar in Windows 7 is lovely. If an operating system's raison d'etre is to help a user interface with his computer hardware (and other software, I suppose), it immediately becomes clear that the OS's user interface is really really really important. Windows 7's taskbar is reason enough for the switch, let alone all the other things it does well.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: protokatie on November 23, 2009, 07:13:18 pm ---There is no reason to go back to pre-NT based windows...
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Uh... NT was in parallel development with 9x run since about 93 or so. It became an interesting OS in 95 or thereabouts.
protokatie:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 24, 2009, 02:21:56 am ---
--- Quote from: protokatie on November 23, 2009, 07:13:18 pm ---There is no reason to go back to pre-NT based windows...
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Uh... NT was in parallel development with 9x run since about 93 or so. It became an interesting OS in 95 or thereabouts.
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NT was in development even before that. Maybe we could consider the winNT line to have started with windows 3.11 for workgroups?
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