On Friday 08 June 2007 18:50, someone wrote: > Windows ME is a strange beast. Seems it failed miserably. > Nice thing about Windows ME was that it doesn't require > validation like XP does. It must only be about 7 years old, > but there's no support for it. Just as well perhaps, seems > like Windows ME had an identity crisis. It wasn't exactly > dos based Windows and yet it wasn't NT either. I think an > end of life Windows 98 carrying dos real mode support > forward would have been better anyways.
A very strange beast indeed. It was a Win9x masquerading as an NT-class OS, and consequently, neither fish nor flesh, but definitely foul. > > Did 98SE and ME come out about the same time? I don't think > that Windows ME has support for real mode dos. 98SE came out some time in 1999=2000, I think - though I wasn't a Microsoft watcher at the time. It had support for real-mode DOS, except that support was internal to the kernel, and wasn't available for the user. > > I experienced ME for a whole 2 days. When it blue screened > on me, I tried to replace it with Linux. When X wouldn't > work, the HP celeron system it came on went back to Fred's > and I got a refund. > > I hear that a lot of ME users migrated to XP. Indeed, > XP Home upgrade is advertised as an, > "upgrade for Windows 98SE." 98SE was the ideal upgrade for WinME, if you didn't have the money for the hardware upgrade to make your box XP-friendly. I've upgraded a sister's computer from WinME to 98SE, and they were very, very happy about that. > > On the subject of seemingly dead releases of Windows, how > about Windows CE? How about Windows Vista? ;) > > Michael Robinson > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
