Sometimes you have to remember where you came from to appreciate what you have, so one brave and possibly foolish YouTuber tried to use a late 90s PC running Windows 98 as a full-time machine. OldTech81 opted to use a computer from the Windows 98 era for that authentic retro experience. This was a killer laptop when it came out in , and it still has a leg-up on some modern machines. Most of them are obsolete, but still. The Armada E has enough power to keep the OS chugging along nicely.
You can even play MP3s and low-resolution video. Can a 10 year old operating system still make the grade? And in some cases, does Windows 98 make more sense than Windows Vista? The answer of course depends on your users and the equipment you're using. Windows 98's hardware limitations make it an extremely poor choice for most newer machines. Vendors very rarely include Windows 98 drivers for most new peripherals. Finally, under Windows 98, a hard drive partition formatted with FAT32, the default file system, can't exceed What's worse is that at that size, individual clusters are 32 KB, which can result in a lot of wasted space.
From a security standpoint, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 98, so you've got to watch out for unpatched security vulnerabilities. You can minimize your exposure by making sure you've installed a Windows 98 — supported virus scanner and firewall as well as making sure you use modern updated software like FireFox for Windows In any case, you don't want to use Windows 98 any where security is a major concern.
So clearly, Windows 98 isn't a choice for any machine built in the last year. Since no newer versions of Windows will run on the older hardware, we have no reason to see if the apps will run on newer versions of Windows. End Edit. Edit - Okay, this one just won't run on XP. The hardware will support the OS, but the app craps out. I see no point in virtualizing this just to host it on an newer version of Windows.
End edit. These are a small minority of the total systems in the building, maybe 10 machines out of or so. When the new technology campus was built, another computer was put into the Maintenance Director's office to support the new HVAC program for that campus. With that program, you actually had an image of the ducts and fans, not just a little symbol representing the ducts and fans, etc.
Yeah, I didn't really explain what he wife's papaw used his Win98 for, which is his invoice software I'll have to ask what it is. He prints his invoices from that machine, which also is connected to a Dot Matrix printer.
Thanks for all the responses, I like hearing about things like that. That I will finally upgrade from Win 3. Nobody offers what they want in a prebuilt and I can build it cheaper to boot. What they aren't buying is new POS peripherals to replace the old serial devices, so we're getting usb-serial adapters and a hub for the POS equipment. Ubunti 9. They have a license for Acronis TrueImage and want to use the nonstop backup feature to mirror the primary drive to the secondary.
And even with my time, it all comes in cheaper than a mid-line Dell or HP.
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