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To: QwikSand who wrote (27701)	2/14/2000 8:46:00 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear QS: I am totally ignorant of all this stuff only quoting from the magazine article in PC World or whatever its called (keep forgetting the name even though i am a subscriber) they clearly say NO USB support must use SCSI or EEII? JDN

To: QwikSand who wrote (27701)	2/14/2000 11:07:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

QS - There was a development going on in parallel with the base Win2K work - it was called the "consumer shell" and was an attempt to support typical consumer applications. I played around with it at one point - it ran about 1 in 5 of the games I tried. The effort was dropped because there was just too much stuff that would not run under the constraints of the NT base... they have a LONG way to go to make this a consumer OS. They may have to wait until more of the programs in common use depend on newer technology. Most of the games assume they "own" the machine. I have had no trouble with USB support, I don't know why someone would say that - one of the machines I use with Win2K is entirely USB including the keyboard, mouse and printer... somebody is smoking something on that one.