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Offline Van_M

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Re: New super-efficient MS Windows!
« on: May 30, 2004, 01:29:31 AM »
I really think that putting win95 in a modern machine wouldn't be the best idea in the world. When the win95 kernel was written there was no DDR ram, the bios'es were quite primitive, the northbridges were more primitive, there was no AGP, ISA was a standard, the cpu was real CISC, etc. I'm sure (given that it even installs), it won't be the most stable machine in the universe...

--EDIT-- forgot to mention that Win95/98/Me was largely based on DOS, a 16 bit OS, and todays CPU's are 32/64 bit... that, on it's own doesn't sound good...
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Re: New super-efficient MS Windows!
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2004, 01:33:20 AM »
Best thing to do if you get yourself an archaic version of windows and wanna play with it, would be to get some Virtual Machine software (that can emulate a 386 or lower) and install it there.
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