Norb hit most of the issues, including games, but mainly, I don't run
software for which I do not have a license. Remember those pesky MS license
issues? That's one of the big reasons we are all on this list.
Also, in my experience, Norb was right about WinME. Yuk. Even the Win95 B
version is less unstable.
And yes, the Win95 box is a Pentium90, 24 MB RAM, 1GB HDD, not very
expandable. An ancient laptop. Dead battery went missing long ago. Duct
tape and wire ties hold the cord into the power brick. CD is long dead, but
floppy still works (can't use both at the same time anyway). A few
less-than-essential plastic pieces are gone. Keyboard is getting a little
sticky. "Pencil Eraser" mouse acts up once in a while. Kind of like an old
warrior that wears his battle scars with pride, it is still hanging tough,
and has VNC client in the startup group to drive the other boxes. It gives
me a second monitor.
> Justin Keyes wrote:
> > I see. Thanks for the explanation. Out of curiosity, why would you ever
> > want to have a win95 or win Me box (or even win 98se) when you have 98se
> > and 2000?
>
>Norb wrote:
> Video games and programs that are not supported under Win2k, even if it
> is using FAT32 as opposed to NTFS (I know that there are a number of
> music programs that just WILL not run with NTFS and will MAYBE be able
> to work - somewhat - on Win2k, where as in with 95/98/98se/Me/You/them,
> it'll install without a hitch). Wish I could explain more on the
> differences, but I use windows about as often as we get to see Haley's
> comet. As for 98se vs. Win("lose or draw")ME - people think they need
> it. (paraphrasing the cheese commercials) Ahhh, behold the power of the
> marketing department...
>
> Oh yea, and you might just have a system so low on resources that your
> only option is to install 95 (or you just haven't bothered to upgrade).
> to get any sort of good performance. I saw a system one time with 24
> megs of RAM, with a pentium 120mhz running Win2k. Now that was a scary
> sight...
>
> Norb
>
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