19 May
2023
19 May
'23
2:12 p.m.
On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 13:42, Glen Slick via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2023, 4:36 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000603.htm
I I think that Windows ME had USB 2 at launch. Not sure. ME did
support FireWire which cost me quite a lot of money on one job because
I did not realise that was a difference between ME & 98 SE.
[3] Win98SE was, I _think_, maybe the first version to support USB _2_
and maybe the first version with USB key support as standard. This
needed a driver on original 98.
[4] Microsoft didn't add USB 2.0 support until Windows XP SP1. That USB 2.0
support was also back ported to Windows 2000 SP 4. Microsoft never added
USB 2.0 support to Windows 98SE or Windows Me. [5] Microsoft first added USB mass storage support to
Windows 2000. That
was back ported to the original Windows Me release, but never to Windows
98SE.
Happy to accept that. It was easily added via any number of
third-party drivers though. These were commonly available and in the
early days of USB memory keys, it was not unusual for them to come
with a floppy with Windows 9x driver.
[6] Any USB 2.0 support on Windows 98SE or Me would have been provided by
third-parties, same with any USB mass storage support on Windows 98SE.
For windows 98, that sounds very plausible. For Windows ME, I think it
was built in.
My apologies for poor capitalisation etc– I am dictating these
responses into my Mac as I have a broken right arm.
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