> Russell,
> Wot, no tag? =A0:-)

Ah- I hadn't noticed. That's how it arrived here.
It has a tag but the [ ] are missing :-).

> > AFAIR DOS per se never did, WIN95a did it terribly and WIN95B was the
> > first Windows with decent USB support.

> I have a feeling you're a couple of versions out - I think it was Win98 S=
E that was the first to support USB decently.

"Decently" for some values of decently.
You could definitely pretend to use USB on 95A with suitable
retrofitted (Microsoft supplied) drivers - b ut it was not recommended
and usually less than satisfactory - and 95B came with USB support and
more or less worked for many things much of the time.

This is fresher in my mind that most such stuff as I have a friend who
needs to keep various older systems alive as he supports  specialist
systems (automotive diagnostic) that use special and/or locked hard
drives and the like and demand the O/S they were born with. Strenuous
beating about the head persuades some but not all such to work with
more modern systems.

> I saw Firewire at about the same time, and MS ignored that even more! =A0=
Such a
> shame that it "lost out" to USB, much in the way the VHS/Beta thing went.=
 =A0I seem to be the kiss of death to any new and decent technology - if I =
think it's great, it
> dies soon after (you should see my collection of SyQuest drives and disks=
....).

Presumably you also collect OS/2 :-)

"OS/2 - half an operating system".
Actually a very good one, but ... .
..



      Russell

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