Re: DOS Emulator

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

That's true. The Win98 CD-ROM I got with my HP Pavilion is locked to the
motherboard of this Pavilion; when people upgraded their motherboard they
couldn't install Win98 again. HP and MS pointed to an obscure EULA file
which you can read *after* you install Win98. In order to upgrade your
motherboard, you'd have to buy a retail version of Win98, which as I recall
was about $250; I could buy a new Pavilion for that much.

If I really wanted to upgrade my motherboard, I would buy a retail copy of
Win98 and sue MS for the cost in small claims court. In my experience, you
have about a 50% chance of winning in small claims court in NYC, regardless
of the merits of your case.

When MS says they won't support Win98 any more, I assume that they mean
they won't even sell you a retail copy at list price.

If anyone knows where to buy a workable copy of Win98 cheaply, I'd like to
know.

At 09:38 AM 1/21/03 -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:

>> Why need a new (hardware) system require a new opsys? It is possible to
>> buy bare iron and install your old opsys (assuming you have the CDs).
>
>The difficulty is, that unless you bought the full retail version (generic
>installation) CD from M$, this strategy generally won't work. Most OEM
>versions of the CD, for example the ones supplied by Dell as rescue disks,
are
>prevented from working with any other computer or manufacturer, while others
>(e.g. IBM) just restore an image file of the original installation (no user
>configuration whatsoever, i.e. tailored for the original machine). M$
began to
>require this of its OEM distributors about 3-4 years ago.


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