Logan you're kind of ignorant sometimes but, that's okay

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As per your comment on XP Unofficial Service Pack 4,

Logan you're kind of ignorant sometimes but, that's okay. Even 98 has an active community to this day, they made over 1gb RAM and sata support and even have had rudimentary dual core support working on 98se. Heck they even have an XP program compatibility layer for 98SE. (No it's not perfect) Even floppy disks are still alive in niche, commercial, corporate and consumer environments, nothing dies in the tech world it just becomes less popular. I've seen it first hand.

Why upgrade a 700,000 dollar machine just for USB (yes i know floppy emulators exist). I've have test 7 on some SERIOUSLY out dated low end hard ware and it runs decently but, XP is still lighter and the same goes for 98SE. Also each of the 3 OSes i just listed can run some specific applications the other can not.

There will always be a reason people want to keep it around and usually there is community be hind it. Just look at VOGONS.org those dudes are the mecha of retro hardware and games. (because dosbox is in no way perfect)

I'm not just saying this to Logan, this goes for anybody who might not already know this.

 

 

EDIT: Also please don't take it as insult, I watch you guys for a reason, I'm just throwing the info out there so that others can learn/gain from it.

 

EDIT: EDIT: Also there is a hardware void, specially with some intel video chipsets, that 7 and sometimes vista don't work on. (Like my Toughbook)

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aren't we all?

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In deed we are! That's part of what learning is all about : ) Also i edited my post.

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i even got windows 95 and Windows 3.11 in vm-ware

So i am cool

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I have a 98 laptop with an on board Nvidia Geforce 2 go 16mb, which very surprisingly CAN holds it's own it can handle some early to mid 2000's 3d games and it's old enough it renders a lot of the proper 3d effects in older games. You can say that for standard VM unless you have a old video card via device pass through but, then again not every one uses an old OS for gaming.

I have yet to try 3.11 but, it is on my to do list but, i'm probably rambling on at this point.

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I still have Win 3.1 on 1.44 MB floppies around here somewhere ... I still kinda miss Win '98 sometimes ... god I feel old now ... lol