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DarkKobold:
I've had nothing but good experience with 98lite. Probably, as howard said, not good for Mame Cabinets, but very good for hackable computers, such as the I-Opener, 3com Audrey, or Gateway connected touchpad. Depending on your application, you may need to get down to less then 100 megs for a win98 install.

Sasquatch!:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 27, 2003, 09:49:18 pm ---I wouldn't reccomend 95 or 98lite.  Directx has abandonded 95 as a supported os.  98 lite doesn't handle all directx calls properly, particularly the newer versions of dx.  In todays standards 98se is microscopic, just stick to it.  
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Although MS ain't gonna be updating 98SE for that much longer, are they?

Howard_Casto:
Right, it'll probably be dropped with longhorn

cobelli:
Yup. They've already dropped 95 and I think 98 gold. SE is the next logical step. Microsofts official stance is they only support 3 os at once. I say ditch ME and leave 98 in there for a few more years. An interesting fact: Whistler (the codename for xp) is a ski mountain and longhorn is a bar at the bottom of it!
- Cobelli

Analog-X:

--- Quote from: cobelli on August 28, 2003, 01:08:10 am ---Yup. They've already dropped 95 and I think 98 gold. SE is the next logical step. Microsofts official stance is they only support 3 os at once. I say ditch ME and leave 98 in there for a few more years. An interesting fact: Whistler (the codename for xp) is a ski mountain and longhorn is a bar at the bottom of it!
- Cobelli

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Hi Cobelli

I bought 98Lite Last year and have used it in many situations where I need a fast 98 System that was not bloated with all other MS stuff.
 
Anyways, many times before I attempted to run Win98Lite from a CD-ROM and using Ram-Disk without any success.  Would you have any documentation on how this is done?
 

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Now as far as Microsoft Dropping OS/S.
 
I have a link about Microsoft Going after a Small Company whos licencing info was off on about 8% of their computers and all the hell they went through which convinced the owner of the company to go completly non-microsoft and so they switched to Linux.
 
Which brings me back to what you said about MS Supporting 3 OS's at a time.  The Article touches on that topic, as one of the annoyances.  The Owner of the companys says he's saving money every year by not having to upgrade OS's and losing support on previous os.
 
For home user when an OS support drops its not that big of a deal you either stick with the old one or upgrade.
 
A large company has the added bonus of hundreds of computers that would need to be upgraded which is a lot of work and cant realy stick with an obsolete OS since business demands upgrades be made...sometimes the customers you deal with upgrade their os/software so you have no choice but to follow.
(END OF RANT)
 

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