Re: OT;W98 popularity
- From: "Bruce Varley" <bxvarley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:20:28 +0800
"Jim Yanik" <jyanik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can someone tell me why people on Ebay are bidding over $50 USD forSome of those buyers will be industrial. There's a heap of legacy packages
Windows
98SE? (Besides the usual auction fever.)
Why are people willing to pay so much for a really old op system?
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
around associated with PLCs and other programmable control devices which
were written in the DOS days, and have things like BIOS and DOS calls
embedded in the code, as well as other Win32 no-nos such as wait loops. Some
of them work better than the modern Windows equivalents... if those exist.
After W98 the rot set in for that sort of software.
.
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