Re: OT;W98 popularity
- From: Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:33:58 GMT
On 27 Aug 2007 20:54:00 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can someone tell me why people on Ebay are bidding over $50 USD for Windows
98SE? (Besides the usual auction fever.)
Why are people willing to pay so much for a really old op system?
I use Win98SE a lot. For one thing, the DOS box is real not some faux
thing that doesn't work well. And I still use DOS tools for a variety
of work. Another is that DOS and Win98SE actually run pretty well on
some small-resourced embedded x86 boxes. Handy to maintain some
familiarity with that. Since I do embedded work, a lot of old
products require old tools, too. To support them, I need the O/S they
relied upon.
But probably the main reason (not DOS per se but using Win98SE itself)
for still using Win98SE here is that my business model has me swapping
out hard disks. I keep all disks in drawers and each project comes
with it's own disk and all of the associated software installed, as
needed. This means that if one project screws up and writes all over
all disks on the machine, the only damage is to that project and to no
other projects. No partitions or other disks exposed to risk. It
also means the same machine can be used for linux, FreeBSD, Win98SE,
etc. I just slap in the disk and boot.
If I were to try this with WinXP, for example, I'd have to get a
seperate license for each and every configuration. Doesn't fit my
work model here. A serious mismatch.
Of course, I don't need to buy Win98SE, as I purchased by license and
copy a very long time ago and still have that and other incarnations
going all the way back to Win286 and Win386, the first even slightly
useful versions of Windows.
Jon
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