BTW - have you had the same kind of problem with W98? I haven't taken the plunge yet.
Me neither. I will politely forego my usual commentary, but given my general bad luck with OSR2, I didn't feel lucky on that one. Some trade rag said that systems over a year old weren't good candidates anyway, and I got that kind of stuff. NT4 WS w/SP3 has been pretty reliable for me, though.
I'll pay another complement to Microsoft, too. When Win95 is working well, it seems like a pretty reasonable system to me. I have a new install on a K6 233 next to me (the one with the headache giving PCI modem), and it pops up and down in no more than 5 seconds. Much quicker than POST, and about 20 times as fast as NT. For home use, it's generally more convenient than NT too. But my last Win95 install on this machine, currently running NT4 reliably, lasted about a month before it self destructed. It's still there, but it hangs in the splash screen. Win95 was running pretty nicely till then, usually I see a more gradual degradation.
Cheers, Dan. |
