Subj : Re: Windows 9x + USB Supp
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Nov 29 2024 16:57:56


> ED VANCE wrote:

> It was in a rudimentary form in Win98 (not in 95) but needed 
> device-specific drivers for each device, and even then only worked when 
> it felt like it.

> There was better USB support in 98SE and ME, tho it still wasn't very 
> good. Some things worked, others didn't, and filesystems (eg. flash 
> drives) would often get corrupted.

> XP made USB support seamless, tho sometimes it doesn't want to eject a
> device that has a filesystem. This is fixed in XP64 and everything later.
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W98SE and ME both were nice OSs.
Never had ME here, just used it when visiting at someone's home.
I remember lots of bad chat about it but what I done with it seemed acceptable.
Used it for web browsing, writing & printing text, and put Irafanview on it to
print some photos from the family's SD Card in their camera.

Here at home I had Win 3.1/MS-DOS 5.0 & IBM-DOS 7.0 on the 486 Desktop before
getting the XP Desktop.
Had Win95 on a Notebook to see what 95 was all about, now have Vista on a
notebook.
Ed
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