Re: OT;W98 popularity
- From: Nobody <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:31:14 +0100
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:01:03 +0000, Rich Grise 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?
Because, so far, it's the least unreliable version of Windows that's
available. (except maybe 2K, but is anybody selling used copies?)
That definitely isn't the case.
All of the DOS-based Windows versions (3.1, 95, 98, ME) have the first
megabyte of memory unprotected and shared between all applications and the
OS. If an application screws up and corrupts that area, you need a reboot.
If you want any real stability, you need the "OS" versions of Windows
(NT/2K/XP), not the "DOS program" versions (95/98/ME). With the DOS-based
versions, the system is only as stable as the worst-behaved program.
Having said that, the Mac never had *any* memory protection prior to
MacOSX, and it was a lot more stable. Most of that was due to the use of
Objective-C, meaning you had to go out of your way to overrun a
buffer.
.
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