Evidently A is completely ruled out, for B it depends, and C is evidently good to go. 98 has "native" (As native as anything in 9x got) support for it.
I seem to recall 98 was good with 95 stuff as well as DOS, so the difference should be minimal. The biggest concern would have to be the size of the installation, although that could be easily "pared down" without too much trouble.
Agree with Fede, I run the same config on a laptop (just less RAM) and it runs fairly well. One thing I do judge what OS to use on a computer, I check the reccomended requirements on an OS and multiply it by 4. For example, Windows XP:
Recommended:
300 MHz
2 GB HD
128 MB RAM
So the good peformance requirements would be:
1.2 GHz
8 GB HD
512 MB Ram
But why so quick to blame 98? I've use Windows 98 since 2000 and never had problems. Even on a Pentium 90 with 24 RAM never had serious problems (cept for lag).
Hmm...that's interesting. I did all that and never crashed it. The only time Defrag crashed it was when my HD was going on me. Cause it moved stuff to bad parts of my HD.
Maybe there was bad sectors, but you know how they spread, happened to my laptop HD. But shutting down Windows properly doesn't affect Windows, it's just your HD. They grow old man, and get crappy.
Ran it on a comp with 24 MB of RAM with a lot of programs running, just went slow not crashed. Same with my 64 MB laptop, running it with Firefox, MSN and Stealthbot running
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Also, what about 98light?
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Evidently A is completely ruled out, for B it depends, and C is evidently good to go. 98 has "native" (As native as anything in 9x got) support for it.
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I'm going to use this to play older games. :-D
Hmmmm
BTW: It was running 2K for a while... really slow... I just wanted to switch back to a 9x for nostaligc purposes.
I seem to recall 98 was good with 95 stuff as well as DOS, so the difference should be minimal. The biggest concern would have to be the size of the installation, although that could be easily "pared down" without too much trouble.
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It was basically an updated version of B (OSR 2.0) that OEMs used.
I'd just go with 98FE, seemed a little faster than SE on some PCs I ran it on.
so, 98 SE is the best way...
Recommended:
300 MHz
2 GB HD
128 MB RAM
So the good peformance requirements would be:
1.2 GHz
8 GB HD
512 MB Ram
I'd choose 95C as 98SE is highly unstable, and 95C should be quicker. It's less supported, though.
Use up all your RAM. *crash*
Need I say more?
Just gives you Blue Screen, press a key and everything goes back to normal.
Ran it on a comp with 24 MB of RAM with a lot of programs running, just went slow not crashed. Same with my 64 MB laptop, running it with Firefox, MSN and Stealthbot running
Do tell.