Are we having fun yet CHARLES?


Sep 16 11:40 04, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to PAUL WESTELL:

 CA> Reasons to update to a newer versions of Windows might be to
 CA> get use of more than 256 meg of memory, support larger hard
 CA> drives, avoid the major fragmentation of FAT32, support for USB
 CA> 2.0 and other newer hardware that W98 does not support. DOOM
 CA> III, for instance, won't work on W98 machines. :-) 

Much of what I said was intended tongue in cheek, but I still use win98 on
my other machine.

Your objections seem to indicate hardwware limitations rather than a fault
of the operating system. The only one I take seriously is being unable to
play Doom III, but I did mention games. 

I will have to check about the ram as I was planning to get more, but I
have had no problem with win98 at 256 meg. USB2 is supported and bootable,
and 40 gig drives run without complaint. 

Last week I installed a 120 gig drive on a friends win98 system. I used
slackware to partition the disk, after which windows had no problem
formating the partitions and installing. It was not bootable though until I
added the helper softwear to the mbr, but that was a bios problem (as was
ms fdisk, it uses the bios). 

Fragmentation is not such a big problem if looked after regularly. I do not
trust XP with a file system, it can't write a clean partition. If you don't
have a stable partition, you have nothing and may as well be using
floppies. This, if nothing else will keep me from ever installing XP.

98 will support all but the very oldest hardware, XP will not, and I have
yet to see very much in the way of new hardware without drivers for win98.
In other words, win98 will run more hardware than XP. 

Eventually I will defenestrate both of my systems, but all in good time ;)


It could be worse ...
Paul

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