G'Day Paul,

02 Apr 04 21:50, you wrote to David Drummond:

 MM>>> Probably because, with the rise of protected mode operating
 MM>>> systems such as XP, they are no longer effective.
 PQ> [ ...trim... ]
 DD>> Not everyone is running XP - there's still quite a few '98 out
 DD>> there.

 PQ> Too true.  We're still running 5 with '95 here.  The 6th with '98 is
 PQ> broken.  Since experiencing XP at work, I wouldn't touch it with a barge
 PQ> pole even if I had the hardware.

XP Home is much the same as 98 only it has less features (networking wise).
XP Pro works better then 98 and is still much the same under the GUI change.

They just finally got the OS in 32 Bit from taking NT code.

Cheers,
                Rick

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