windows 98

On 02/12/2014 12:28 AM, Derrick wrote: > On 2/11/2014 9:45 PM, Jim Stephens wrote: >> I have a vmware image. I'll see if i can find an installer ISO >> >> The comment about being off topic is not true. I don't like >> Fords, but let people collect them. Also if you need to get a >> Ford going to do something useful and the topic were relevent to >> a list about old fords, it should be on topic overall to such a list >> >> If you started delving too far into topics about things not >> related to classic hardware you'd be better to take them to a >> windows forum. But asking how to get classic hardware running >> with older devices / hardware and specific topics to that is on >> target. >> >> Reason being. >> >> The hardware for the x86 PC progressed from an 8088 thru a 286, >> 386, 486, and Pentium. >> >> The Dos and windows platforms operated in ways that were unique, >> in this way. >> >> Original 8088 in pure 8088 real mode. 286 introduced protected >> mode but still had to deal with return to real mode and booted >> and ran as a real mode OS going into protected mode and back. I >> believe Windows 3.1 used a mode that was somewhat different than >> win95, but the essential thing for dos, Win3.1 and win95 were >> all real mode that ran another mode, but basically were real mode >> OS's. >> >> Windows 98 booted almost directly into protected mode and created >> a dos box to run such software as had required real mode. >> >> From there on, the transition was to Windows NT and that is a >> whole different can of worms. >> >> A lot of hardware out there deals only with the various windows >> platforms, and it is not acceptable to at least be considerate of >> questions which relate to the topic of windows related to the >> older custom hardware. >> >> Just as an example a lot of the affordable high performance >> scanners that have created Bitsavers require older windows and >> then still barely run, and getting help to support such should >> not be banned. >> >> Jim >> >> 4 > i think ur so right jim, with old computers some people still want > to use them cause they may do things that newer computers might > not do. i know 98 can run even on a p4 machine but only limited to > 512mb of ram. 98 had the issue with any amount of ram over 512mb. > the computer i tried to run 98 on was an optiplex gx50 with 512mb > of ram max and a 1.10ghz celeron. the optiplex gx50 has a windows > 98se serial on it but also has a designed for windows xp but > running xp on the computer it runs super slow. idk what to really > do with the old optiplex gx50 other then to try to run 98 but yea. > some piece of software i put on it must have made 98 not able to > boot. idk for sure what i am going to do with that machine. i do > want something that will run 98 like be designed to run 98 but yea > its hard to find 98 machines these days. > I run 98SE on ASUS mobo w/AMD Athlon. That's even better performance than a P4. 98SE runs very well on it. I run Autocad, Photoshop and Illustrator and other Adobe stuff on it. No problems. Get 98SE if you can instead of 98. Works much better. As mentioned earlier I can run old hardware such as SCSI large format scanner, and large format printers on it.