[ILUG] Windows 98 Replacement?

[Conor Wynne]

> On 5 Mar 2005, at 16:56, John Orford wrote:
>
>> sounds like just what's needed - although somehow i doubt it could run
>> on
>> pentium 2 hardware - Gnome runs at a snail's pace on my pentium 533
>> mhz...
>>
>>>  and runs gnome folded into the kernel so its very fast.
>>
>> i've never heard of that b4 - how does that work?  why aren't others
>> doing
>> it??
>
> Probably because it's a bad idea? Microsoft put display drivers into
> the kernel back in NT4 days and were rightly berated for it.

Think its win9x your thinking of. Which is why the system had to be three
finger saluted if the display got corrupted. This did not happen with nt4.

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>
> Niall
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