Windows ME, millennium, was marketed as a windows 2000 home edition that was
rushed out to market to replace win9x, Imho,
a badly hacked up 98se codebase, like was an early drawing board idea for XP?
same year later XP was released superseding it.
I think WinME uses msdos as it boot up OS, but it was restricted so older dos
apps had trouble with it. Samething happened to me when I build my AMD686 box,
bluescreened out and I ended up putting OS/2 Warp on it instead.
--chris
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From: someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:50:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.
Windows ME is a strange beast. Seems it failed miserably.
Nice thing about Windows ME was that it doesn't require
validation like XP does. It must only be about 7 years old,
but there's no support for it. Just as well perhaps, seems
like Windows ME had an identity crisis. It wasn't exactly
dos based Windows and yet it wasn't NT either. I think an
end of life Windows 98 carrying dos real mode support
forward would have been better anyways.
Did 98SE and ME come out about the same time? I don't think
that Windows ME has support for real mode dos.
I experienced ME for a whole 2 days. When it blue screened
on me, I tried to replace it with Linux. When X wouldn't
work, the HP celeron system it came on went back to Fred's
and I got a refund.
I hear that a lot of ME users migrated to XP. Indeed,
XP Home upgrade is advertised as an,
"upgrade for Windows 98SE."
On the subject of seemingly dead releases of Windows, how
about Windows CE?
Michael Robinson
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