Windoze Me & DOS
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Windoze Me & DOS
I was more than a little surprised to find that it was more than a case of START, SHUTDOWN, START IN MSDOS, on this OS.
I had had no need to revert to DOS since installing a copy of ME on my beast untill this past weekend, when I needed to do a BIOS flash.
Normally just start in dos, run amiflash, job done. (B4 anyone sugggests WINFLASH, I tried, to be confronted by "This program has performed...."
Solved it in the end by booting from M.E Startup disk to the A prompt, then ran the update from a floppy.
Me don't do format/s either, so could not even make a bootable floppy as easy as before. What gives with M.E?...... Might just put 98 SE back
I had had no need to revert to DOS since installing a copy of ME on my beast untill this past weekend, when I needed to do a BIOS flash.
Normally just start in dos, run amiflash, job done. (B4 anyone sugggests WINFLASH, I tried, to be confronted by "This program has performed...."
Solved it in the end by booting from M.E Startup disk to the A prompt, then ran the update from a floppy.
Me don't do format/s either, so could not even make a bootable floppy as easy as before. What gives with M.E?...... Might just put 98 SE back
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IT professionals like to argue about most things, but you'll find near unanimity that 98SE is far far preferable to Me. If there's anything that you really need from Me, then consider moving to XP - but make sure your system has the resources to handle it.
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Win ME does have a few more MultiMedia instructions so Entertainment Applications should run better. But that doesn't interest me and the only bit of ME I liked was the Restore function, which you now get with XP.
No, I took ME off my little Sony Vaio Picturebook and put Win 2K on. It was a struggle with some of the Hardware but Sony did provide all the Patches and Updates and it hums along now.
I agree, get rid of it and go forward if you can. Otherwise Win 98SE is good but, like all Bill's OSs, it has few quirks with modern hardware.
The great advance along the NT chain of OSs (NT4, Win 2K and XP) is the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that protects the Kernel from hardware incompatibilities and idiosyncracies. Thus you get many fewer hardware crashes and problems.
There was great hilarity in the Fobotcso Towers when I first told Mrs fob about my new Hardware Abstraction Layer and I 've never been allowed to forget it.
No, I took ME off my little Sony Vaio Picturebook and put Win 2K on. It was a struggle with some of the Hardware but Sony did provide all the Patches and Updates and it hums along now.
I agree, get rid of it and go forward if you can. Otherwise Win 98SE is good but, like all Bill's OSs, it has few quirks with modern hardware.
The great advance along the NT chain of OSs (NT4, Win 2K and XP) is the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that protects the Kernel from hardware incompatibilities and idiosyncracies. Thus you get many fewer hardware crashes and problems.
There was great hilarity in the Fobotcso Towers when I first told Mrs fob about my new Hardware Abstraction Layer and I 've never been allowed to forget it.
