[Gllug] Does anyone remember W98?

[john levin]

John Winters wrote:
> I'm in the happy position of having been dumped with a PC owned by a 
> friend in the hope that I will be able to fix it.  It seems to be the 
> usual problem of bit-rot - the hardware is fine but W98 is unhappy.
> 
> One oddity though - when I ask W98 what it thinks of the hardware it 
> says there is only 64M of RAM.  The BIOS and Ubuntu both think there is 
> 192M.  Was W98 restricted to 64M of RAM?
> 

Remember it? I still use it - admittedly via VMware.
I have a vague idea that the original Win98 couldn't copy with much 
memory, but I certainly haven't had this problem with Win98SE (Second 
edition). (My first modern computer was a win98se laptop with 128mb ram.)

HTH

John


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