[at-l] RE: OT computer Trouble!!

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

RE: Win ME. I agree. That OS was a real dog, arguably the worst that MS 
ever put out. I can't say I was too fond of 98 SE either but I know some 
who liked it. It think it depended on the hardware you had whether it was 
any good. My son claims it was the best MS OS for gaming (he's a 3D game 
programmer). I was running it on a Compaq 500 mhz unit and had frequent 
(2-5/day) crashes from day one. The problem with setting up old hardware 
with fresh installs of old OSs is getting the latest version. All of the MS 
OSs had multiple iterations with updated (read that as 'bug fixes') along 
the way. You need to find the last version they issued. Are the updates to 
98 still on the MS web site? I last updated a 98 machine about a year and a 
half ago. If they are you don't want to be updating via dial-up. Borrow 
someone's broadband connection for an hour.

I actually liked 95 better than either version of 98. When I was doing 
networking/support for DOL we had several old desktops and laptops that ran 
95. They were some of the most reliable machines we had but that may have 
been as much the hardware as the software. The laptops were DELL 166mhz 
XPi-CD models and they just wouldn't quit. I believe they are still using them.

At 04:56 PM 12/29/2003 -0500, J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>Geez... you have the two worst OS's available for MS. Win95 becuase it is
>old and buggy and ME because is is just bad (I was on the Tech Beta for
>both) Blow them both away and get WIN-98SE. Nothing wrong with a 300 MHz
>box, if it does what you need, then why upgrade it?
>
>Bryan
>
>  Samuel Adams advised, "Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity,
>and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the
>sake of the latter."
>
>A more
> > likely culprit may be the two obsolete operating systems I have installed:
> > Windows ME on the "C" drive, and Windows 95 on the drive with my DeskTop
> > Publishing program, a Windows version of the venerable WordStar,
> > which hasn't
> > been sold for more than a decade.
> >