Upgrading Windows 98
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From: John Doe on 5 Jan 2010 01:53 98 Guy <98(a)Guy.com> wrote: > John Doe wrote: >> 98 Guy <98(a)Guy.com> wrote: >> > Running win-98 today does not mean that I'm also running >> > hardware circa 1999. >> >> It means that you are using old hardware and running old >> software. > > Why do you think I'm running old hardware? > > What exactly is "old" to you? > >> Whatever... This group is mainly for solving personal computer >> problems. Upgrading to Windows XP tends to solve many PC >> problems, as it did for the original poster. > > For office and small business use, there is nothing that XP does > that a win-98 system can't do. But seriously... Most current office applications (CAD, graphics design, office software, etc) require Windows XP or higher. The reason is because of Windows 98/ME (and prior) shitty memory management. You do not have to believe it or admit it, but that is the way it is. Any intelligent reader can go to an online store and see for himself (or herself), it is not a mystery to any regular in this group.
From: John Doe on 5 Jan 2010 01:56 98 Guy <98 Guy.com> wrote: > John Doe wrote: > >> >> Win-98 was not vulnerable to any exploit >> >> And then there is the (need for stability) > > Ah, the stability myth. You are a clueless fuckwit. -- > > The truth is that most people experienced win-98 on very pathetic > hardware. Machines with maybe 32 or 64 mb of memory. With buggy > motherboard, AGP and video card drivers. By 2000 or 2001, most techie > people had abandoned win-9x and started running win-2K (as long as there > were enough video-card and SOUND CARD drivers so they could play their > infantile games on win-2k). > > But by 2002 the drivers were getting better for win-98. > > I run win-98 all day on my office and home PC's. PC's with 2.5 ghz > P-4's with 512 mb ram and Nvidia 6600 cards with 128 or 256 mb ram and > 80, 250 and even 500 gb hard drives and giga-bit ethernet cards and even > dual-screen 1600 x 1200. That's a long way from the hardware available > back in 1999. > > And they're stable as a rock. > > > Path: news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!weretis.net!feeder2.news.weretis.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail > From: 98 Guy <98 Guy.com> > Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt > Subject: Re: Upgrading Windows 98 > Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:19:08 -0500 > Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server > Lines: 24 > Message-ID: <4B42BDBC.BC015A5F Guy.com> > References: <t5ikj55en0nhe0klsih84f3o06qqgjdpko 4ax.com> <00b679fd$0$12998$c3e8da3 news.astraweb.com> <7q75mpFl3sU1 mid.individual.net> <00ec7df3$0$27968$c3e8da3 news.astraweb.com> <7q799nF8n7U1 mid.individual.net> <00afd629$0$8059$c3e8da3 news.astraweb.com> <4B417102.A6457CB2 Guy.com> <00bd5d90$0$23806$c3e8da3 news.astraweb.com> <4B41F791.E54D9544 Guy.com> <hht6sc$8ha$1 news.eternal-september.org> <00a064c2$0$16793$c3e8da3 news.astraweb.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: /Rg06CALwARDXoIUo8hAwA.user.speranza.aioe.org > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Complaints-To: abuse aioe.org > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) > X-Accept-Language: en > X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.1 > Cancel-Lock: sha1:LqJYLwazr3/gN82tqAUO+dIOkmg= >
From: Toolpackinmama on 5 Jan 2010 02:43 John Doe wrote: > You are a clueless fuckwit. Hey John, you need to change up your approach sometimes. Keep doing the same thing and people become inured to it. Put some variety in your act. http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html
From: GEO on 5 Jan 2010 08:53 On 04 Jan 2010 06:11:36 GMT, John Doe <jdoe(a)usenetlove.invalid> wrote: >"GEO" Me home.here wrote: >> edfair <edfair.447hu2 no.email.invalid> wrote: >>>This is kinda a replay of the 95/3.1 arguement I had with a buddy. He >>>insisted that 95 was the greatest thing since sliced bread until I >>>pointed out that the 3.1 would boot, work for what I needed, and shut >>>down before the 95 was finished booting. <snip> >> Well said. >Please elaborate. >Are you stuck using Windows 98? If you look at my headers you will see that I am using Windows 3.1. :) It all depends on what you want/need to do with your computer. For most things it does what I need. Geo
From: GEO on 5 Jan 2010 14:21
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:44:55 -0500, Toolpackinmama <philnblanc(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Mike Easter wrote: >> So next, in order to have a lean and mean OS plus only the apps of your >> personal choice, you have to go thru' the installation picking out all >> of the little parts which are imbedded into the registry. >I don't mind fussing with a new computer. It's fussing over old ones >that irritates me. :) Ah, but that is where 'taste' comes in. I actually enjoy fussing with older equipment. (It helps that I don't spend any money doing this) Geo |