Subj : Re: Missing My Computer i
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 08:46 pm

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

 JP>          Tom, a nice summer day to you !

 TW> Then it has NO USB capability. And as far as Flash Drives go NO ONE
 TW> has ever as I recall provided a driver for them for anythinbg less
 TW> then Win98SE.

 JP>         Tom, sorry to say but my W95 CD says: "With USB support". I
 JP>   rememeber using it but no more. And it worked !

W95 USB support-- even in the W95B and later "with USB support" versions was 
minimal at best... part of the problem lay with Microsoft, part with the device 
developers; Win95 required different USB drivers than Win98/ME, and with a 
smaller market share, few manufacturers bothered spending extra time and money 
to develop the Win95 drivers needed to make their hardware work on that 
platform... it was easier to simply specify that Win98 (or even Win98SE) or 
later were required.

So Win95's USB support was more theoretical than real.

In fact, even though most PCs manufactured from 1996-on included USB ports, 
there was very little to plug into those ports until late 1998, when Apple's 
then-new iMac dumped all its legacy ports in favour of USB; at that point, 
peripheral manufacturers started pushing USB-connectivity, both for Mac, and 
for the recently-released Windows 98 market.
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