Subj : Re: W95 cum USB.
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 11:42 am

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 JP>          Alan, a nice summer day to you !

 AZ> W95 USB support-- even in the W95B and later "with USB support"
 AZ> versions was minimal at best.

 JP>         The only device that I used on W95 USB was an external floppy
 JP>   drive and that was fine. Now, my G-41 has 4 ports and I added a card
 JP>   into my desktop, it gives me a total of 7 ports, they are most of
 JP>   the time connected to mouse-printer-scanner-flash cardsss. The mouse
 JP>   and a FC are on the on-board USB-1.0 ports.

 Initially, I had W95B installed on all my systems at my school-- we first set 
up the computer lab in Sept 1998, a few weeks after the Win98 release, and the 
first batch of systems came with W95B pre-installed; to keep things simple, as 
I got additional systems over the next year or two, I 'down-graded' the 
pre-installed Win98 to Win95.

 The first time I became aware of problems in Win95-land was when I got some 
Intel USB microscopes... these did not include W95 drivers, and required me to 
re-install Win98 onto some systems in order to use them.

 Then, in Sept 2000 I got delivery of a few Celeron-600 systems, which while 
externally identical, and by the same manufacturer as all the slightly older 
computers, used a video card that lacked Win95 drivers. So I had no choice for 
those systems.

 Then as time went on, I ran into a couple of Microsoft-specific issues-- the 
Win95 systems were no longer supported on Windows Update (though IE 5.5 
automatically insisted on going there every couple of weeks), and IE 6.0 would 
not install on the Win95 systems. Finally I concluded that my life would be 
easier if I upgraded the remaining Win95B systems to Win98SE (and IE 6).

 (I continue to run Win95B on a set of donated older Toshiba laptops)...
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