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donoreo · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: Windows 9x is finally done

As far as support and updates go. I am surprised no one posted this yesterday since July 11 was the day Microsoft finally abandoned the 9x line.

They should have done this a long time ago.

alloydog · LXF regular Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:32 pm Posts: 600

GMorgan

I prefered 9x to XP. At the very least 9x had a command line that could be run independantly of the GUI mess.

super_tux

TheDoctor · LXF regular Joined: Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:02 pm Posts: 325

mugstar

alloydog · LXF regular Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:32 pm Posts: 600

groovey stuff

GMorgan

I wonder if the autoshutdown feature will be improved in Vista or whether they actually will get things right this time.

towy71

A leopard cannot change its spots Wink

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spottedcat

ryptyde

I was never to keen on 98 always a pain with installations,hardware and software.XP seemed to be a lot smoother and then as of late everything that Microsoft is trying to implement is a complete turn-off for me.

I took the challenge and tried the recent Vista "beta" and do regret installing now as it is so buggy.I would gladly use 98 instead.Time to R&R the Vista it is all show and no go.

There were plans on dumping support for 98 a couple of years ago but it was extended till now.

Phil

donoreo

I do not understand the people liking 98! I got rid of it as soon as I got 2000 and that was not soon enough! It was horrible, the only things worse were 95 and ME.
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GMorgan

donoreo

Yeah, it did not blue screen if you did not do anything! I found 2000 to be the "best" Windows for me. No cartoony crap like XP has (of course always turned off on any machine I work on) and stable.
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TheDoctor · LXF regular Joined: Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:02 pm Posts: 325

Blue screens are less of a problem in W98 than memory leaks. These are caused by programs not releasing memory after they terminate. (The worst offender in this respect seems to be Adobe Acrobat.) Of course, once your Windows system runs out of memory, you get the blue screen of death.

The reason that memory leakage occurs is that Windows programs are responsible for their own memory management. This is the case with every version of Windows - it's a legacy from DOS - so the problem is integral to Windows, every flavour. On the other hand, under *nix, memory managment is handled by the operating system, so the problem doesn't occur.

To "ipgrade" from W98 to XP involves a lot of time, trouble and money in order to get more of the same (only it feels as if someone has poured rice pudding into your keyboard).