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To: uu who wrote (9638)5/6/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: Thomas Haegin  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Addi and All,

as to Win98 slowing the US economy, I can relate the following story that happened to me just last weekend:

My brother's girlfriend has her own business that uses an MS Access application for her bookeeping and customer tracking, etc. She now runs the thing on the latest MS Win98 beta version, after using Win95 before that, of course. Big deal, you'll say.

Anyway, my brother is her system admin. They went on vacation and one of the girls in the office screwed up something so that the PC wouldn't start from the harddisk anymore.

They asked me if I could have a look, maybe some hardware was defective. When I saw what was the problem, I knew what to do (I have had the same problem with my PC: leaving a non-boot disk in the floppy drive when starting): Boot with a start-up disk to obtain a prompt and then make a SYS C: - that was it. After that I fiddled a bit with the PC and it seemed to run normally.

The thing is the boot disk I used was my private copy with the last Win95 version. And it still worked on the latest Win98 beta, no error message for wrong system version or anything!!

My take is that apart from cosmetics, Win98 is Win95. A delay in shipping Win98 slowing the US economy? ROFL!!!!!!!!!!

Thomas
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