Post by: Highmac on July 13, 2006, 12:14:28 PM
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While few will mourn the recalcitrant eight-year-old, many computer users will harbour fond memories of Windows 98. In automobile terms, it could be likened to a Volvo 240, a cumbersome but useful vehicle, with problems that were well-known but solvable.
It invites readers' "tributes" and it would seem that few are taking the matter too seriously:
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Word to word, crashes to crashes, dos to dos.
Dan, Redhill, Surrey
Dan, Redhill, Surrey
... and ends with a poetic parody I suspect Dick in particular might appreciate
Post by: gunug on July 13, 2006, 12:52:33 PM
Post by: Parker on July 13, 2006, 01:45:27 PM
RIP Windows 98
Post by: gunug on July 14, 2006, 04:14:22 AM
I still say Windows 98 and even DOS would still serve a purpose if you had a working system with them on it. They may not be the best tool but they still work!
Post by: Highmac on July 14, 2006, 12:08:59 PM
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There are still a number of Windows 98 machines at work; most of them would run XP but the budget won't let us upgrade. We're going to phase them all out (hopefully) this winter. We have MAC's but only in Journalism and Graphics labs!
I still say Windows 98 and even DOS would still serve a purpose if you had a working system with them on it. They may not be the best tool but they still work!
I still say Windows 98 and even DOS would still serve a purpose if you had a working system with them on it. They may not be the best tool but they still work!
Wow! 98! Most of our PCs are limping along trying - and usually managing - to run QuarkXPress 3.1 on 95 (I'm lucky - I've got a Win98 machine which manages to run at the speed of warm treacle and freezes or crashes only two or three times a day...
Macs in our place are on the imaging desk (grey and white G4s running Photoshop OS9.x) and in the advert design studio.
Post by: Parker on July 14, 2006, 01:14:53 PM
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warm treacle and freezes or crashes only two or three times a day...
"PC... PC... I'll go get EyeTee"
(quoted from Get A Mac commercial)
Post by: gunug on July 14, 2006, 04:54:18 PM
Post by: Parker on July 14, 2006, 11:38:48 PM
where i think we used Windows 2k
and they had Novell installed on top of it
i think they were Optiplex GX1's
old school...
i haven't been back in a while so i don't know what they have now
probably newer optiplex's like the GX260 and such
running XP
We use NT4 in the library at our school (when they should really be using 2k because it's more "updated" for GXa's and GX1's) and XP on our newer machines (GX150 and newer)
We have very few macs left, but what we do have (Clamshell 466mhz cart, G3 All-In-One's 266mhz, DV's 400mhz, and G4 Tower's 400mhz) are running OS9 because the district stopped supporting them.
Post by: gunug on July 16, 2006, 11:05:40 AM