Subj : Re: USB port issue -follo
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Thu May 21 2020 09:17:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>> React is 32bit (the critical part) AND emulates WinNT (the stable part)
>> -- so I think it's just not seeing the bugs, or not running into them.
> 
> I have been following that project on osnews.com since it started.  I have

I too have followed it since it started. Unfortunately only rarely has 
it run for me at all. But I had the previous working edition (from about 
two years ago) installed for a while as a dual boot with WinXP (which 
absent 3rd party drivers actually used less RAM on the same hardware -- 
about 75mb vs React's 85mb) ... and while it had issues, at least it 
ran! XP (installed second) called it "Unknown OS" but they got on fine.

The current stable release is the next one I've got to install, and it 
has come a long ways. Now, if only they'd do something about the laggy 
video driver, the rest is to where it's everyday usable. USB now works, 
most of the visual uglies are gone, and it no longer seems to clog up 
memory as it used to do. If they can fix the laggy video driver, we'd be 
in business. I'd like to have NTFS support, but even if it could just 
read from NTFS disks, that would be enough. (Don't actually know if 
they've added that.)

> seen where it is getting close enough now that I am interested in playing
> with it.  I just need to get some time.  Good to hear someone else is
> finding that it is now useful.  Most of what I would want to do with it
> involves Win 98 era software so that is good.

I hadn't thought to use it as a wholesale replacement for Win98, but 
that's a good idea. I have a great deal of software from that era; I 
should set up a permanent ReactOS system and try it out. There is a long 
thread on the forum for tested-working software, and some is a bit 
astonishing -- one of the first to work, once it got really competent at 
running anything, was Photoshop!

It does have the 32bit 4GB memory limit (3GB in practice) but how often 
do you need more than that for Win98 stuff? I had 1GB in my very mature 
Win98 box, and had disabled the swapfile as it never used more than 
700mb even when very busy.
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