Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

Dale H. Cook radiotest at juno.com
Thu Feb 4 12:40:55 CST 2016


At 09:57 AM 2/4/2016, J. wrote:

>I still use WinXP for all my primary, workhorse machines.

So do I. I am fully capable of keeping those machines secure online, something which M$ cannot do.

>Win 98, though... I don't see the point of using it any more.  It can't do anything that XP can't do far better.

As I noted upstream, XP is useless for MS-DOS programs that need access to the UART's registers, and that is something that I sometimes need for work. Some of us have to deal with decades-old hardware that still does what it was intended to do, is still maintainable, and that would be very expensive for a client to replace.

Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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