Roman - why not go for a dual boot machine - put Windows 2000 on one
partition and windows 98/95 on the other ?

Set the default boot OS to be Win95/98  and there you go - best of both
worlds.

I use this on our "games and video" machine. It is linked to the 28" telly
downstairs (no monitor) and we use this to play games, watch dvd's and
listen to music on. For the very few applications that need 95/98 I can boot
back down to it.

My office machine (here) runs Windows 98. I've got to try Autotrax on the
machine downstairs but if I like it, I'll chuck in another hard drive and
install Win2k on this one as a dual boot system.

Given the choice between a Win 98 box and a Win2k box, I'd go for the Win2k
box every time. I find it far more reliable, less prone to crashing and can
run for weeks without running out of resources.

Mind you, I used to measure the up time on the Novell server I built in
years :-)


Dom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Black" <fastvid@EZY.NET.AU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: [EE] Re: Free PCB package


> cdb wrote:
> >
> > It is only for Win2K and XP systems. Support for Win9x was dropped
> > back in September/October.
>
>
> That's sad. After recently changing from Win95 to Win98
> I have found that many programs now run much slower with
> significant increases in hard drive "crunch and grind".
>
> I assume this is because windows 98 requires more ram and
> swaps larger amounts of data during the same standard
> functions. Now i'm searching for my win95 disk so I can
> return my PC's back to their *much faster* previous state.
> I can't find one thing that is better about 98 compared
> to 95, apart from a few small cosmetic improvements.
>
> Having spent a few days on the holidays playing with a
> friends new PC running windows XP, again it is noticeably
> slower than my win98 system, even though it has more ram
> and a faster processor.
>
> I wish software developers wouldn't just bow down to the
> wishes of M$, there ARE advantages to using older operating
> systems and people who *choose* to use them should be
> respected even if they are "unfashionable". :o(
> -Roman
>
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