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The day after my last post in which I referred to Windows ME (Millennium Edition) as the worst version of Windows ever produced, I received the copy of a newsletter I subscribe to in which the author confirmed my thoughts.
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He does have some different views on Windows 95 and 98 than my experience. He refers to Windows XP-sp2 as being almost a different version of XP than the original. I agree with that sentiment.
I think Windows 98SE (Second Edition) was an equally new operating system in its time. He says Windows 95 was a 32 bit operating system - almost. Windows 95 and the first edition of Windows 98 installed themselves using the FAT 16 file system by default and were for all intents and purposes 16 bit systems that supported 32 bit programs and drivers. Windows 98SE installed itself using the FAT32 file system in a "Clean Install" and was the first system in my experience to really perform as a 32 bit system. If you Win98SE installed as an upgrade, it duplicated the Fat 16 system of the system it was replacing and had to be converted to FAT32. (The original version of Win98 could also be upgraded to FAT32 by running the conversion utility.) I had several computers in my direct control in the time those operating systems and every one of them ran much better on Win98SE than they had on the first edition.
Click Here For The Article.
He does have some different views on Windows 95 and 98 than my experience. He refers to Windows XP-sp2 as being almost a different version of XP than the original. I agree with that sentiment.
I think Windows 98SE (Second Edition) was an equally new operating system in its time. He says Windows 95 was a 32 bit operating system - almost. Windows 95 and the first edition of Windows 98 installed themselves using the FAT 16 file system by default and were for all intents and purposes 16 bit systems that supported 32 bit programs and drivers. Windows 98SE installed itself using the FAT32 file system in a "Clean Install" and was the first system in my experience to really perform as a 32 bit system. If you Win98SE installed as an upgrade, it duplicated the Fat 16 system of the system it was replacing and had to be converted to FAT32. (The original version of Win98 could also be upgraded to FAT32 by running the conversion utility.) I had several computers in my direct control in the time those operating systems and every one of them ran much better on Win98SE than they had on the first edition.
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