re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...)
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
||The fact is, the device in question *may not* work under Win2000.
Arminius wrote:
|[...]The complaint about Win2000 when it was first released was lack of drivers
[...]but that problem eventually went away
|and support for Win2000 among hardware maunfacturers became standard.
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Yeah. You would _think_ an NT kernel is an NT kernel as far as drivers goes,
--but there *are* incompatibilities among those ostensibly similar platforms
...and manufacturs of stuff **today** often don't bother to do regression.
(It's a mark of what separates the good guys from the crap.)
||M$ simply dropped support for Win9x early
||when they knew they would actually have to expend some effort
|It doesn't surprise me that Microsoft would pull the plug on patches
|earlier than originally promised.
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Now, contrast that with Open Source Software.
Terry's Usenet post did exactly that.
When the source code is available and a single programmer is still interested,
the codebase never dies and the exploits get patched.
|However, as a practical matter, if the security hole had been there all those years
|and gone undetected it probably was not much of a problem.
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Don't whistle too loudly in the dark there. 8-)
||[...]BitTorrent[...]
||(Paying for abandonware seems immoral to me--not to mention dumb.)
|The OP didn't indicate he knew there is a version of XP available
|that DOES NOT require product activation.
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I'm not talking about XP--yet.
As long as M$ does a good faith effort at patching it, they can retain the rights.
I have a real problem, however, with the "intellectual property" laws
that allow projects that are clearly abandoned to be protected still.
|Even so, the OP is in a catch-22 situation.
|Imagine trying to download an ISO using a 26k modem,
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My worse experience was at ~33kb/s (measured). It takes a lot of patience.
...and as I said to the OP, the initial burst speed that you see displayed
when you hover over the icon in the SysTray ISN'T a sustained throughput rate.
|even if the ISO is broken up into 100MB chunks as RAR files.
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Yet another beauty of BitTorrent (segmentation).
|In theory it can be done, but it would take a long long time.
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You young whipersnappers who have no patience...
|Win2000 is a sensible alternative for Win98 users
|who want to continue using their old hardware
|and continue to use an OS they are basically familiar with.
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"To each his own" as the old woman said when she kissed the cow.
|The fact that Win2000 regularly sells for premium prices (for an old OS)
|on the second hand market suggests
|a lot of other people have the same idea and are creating the demand for it.
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It's largely what it DOESN'T contain: WPA, WGA, DRM. The last of that breed.
...and you should use the QuickLink button when posting URLs.
(I prefer it when folks remove the **target=_blank ** part.)
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