Meeting

[Wechter, Ron]

Expiration dates: 

Windows 95 (December 31, 2000) 
Windows 98 / 98 SE (June 30, 2002) 
Windows NT 4.xx (June 30, 2002) 
Windows 2000 (March 31, 2003) 

Dead, "No-longer-supported" 
MS DOS x.xx (December 31, 2001) 
Windows 3.xx (December 31, 2001) 
Windows 95 (December 31, 2001) 
Windows NT 3.5x (December 31, 2001) 
Windows 98/98 SE (June 30, 2003) 
Windows NT 4.xx (June 30, 2003) 

Soon Windows 98 will be gone :(

-----Original Message-----
From: JJ Neff [mailto:jjneff at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:21 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Meeting


I strictly use Win 98 for gaming as anything beyond that gets too wacky with
drive space, licensing and all sorts of back door things that frighten me.
I
would still be running win95 just to play games if I could :-)

JJN
--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'll be there, and glad to hear anything about passwords, file
> > volumes, Quake, and how to install Mandrake dual boot with
> > WinSE on a 20 GB. I got my new box. Put in Win95 and all the
> > drivers for all the onboard stuff, only to find out Win95 can't
> > communicate with the AMR modem. I wound up buying WinSE,
> > stopped there, and went back to trying to figure out the browser
> > crash on the coal burner. I can install over, or wipe the drive and
> > start fresh. WinSE is still in the wrapper, and I'm wide open to
> > suggestions.
> 
> I'll bring the Quake binaries with me (and the src too, if anyone is
> feeling adventerous).  I'm still hoping for a mini-frag fest at the
> meeting this Sunday.  Don't wuss out on me, Meyer ;)  Will someone have a
> hub available at the meeting?
> 
> Scott, you mention WinSE?  Do you mean Win98SE, or WinME.  There's so many
> acronyms, that you can't be too sure nowadays.  If you still have WinME
> (assumption here) in the wrapper, I would suggest remaining with Win98.
> There's no significant difference between the 2 that 3rd party drivers
> & the Windows update site can't compensate for.... Unless you like System
> Restore hogging a crap load of disk space, especially since System Restore
> is broken in WinME ;)  I also like having DOS easily available in Win98.
> You can call me Console happy.
> 
> 
> Dege
> 
> Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
> they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
> 
> 


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