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[TheBoy]

generally very reliable - and used 98 workstations

Thats two words I've never seen in a sentence before

W9x architecture is inherently insecure and unreliable. It is a minor enhancement from WFW, effectively the same OS, but with more 32bit drivers.  Its rare to see a W9x machine run for days without crashing, whether due to faulty driver, application, or OS faults. Results are usually the same - memory corruption causing crashes. And because the OS cannot multitask properly (many W9x API calls are 'exclusive' - as are a very few NT APIs), you cannot recover.

But, and its a big one, an application memory can be corrupted easily. So how do you know what is being written back to your super secure database on its mega server is correct data - you simply cannot guarantee it.

[Martin_1962]

generally very reliable - and used 98 workstations

Thats two words I've never seen in a sentence before

W9x architecture is inherently insecure and unreliable. It is a minor enhancement from WFW, effectively the same OS, but with more 32bit drivers.  Its rare to see a W9x machine run for days without crashing, whether due to faulty driver, application, or OS faults. Results are usually the same - memory corruption causing crashes. And because the OS cannot multitask properly (many W9x API calls are 'exclusive' - as are a very few NT APIs), you cannot recover.

But, and its a big one, an application memory can be corrupted easily. So how do you know what is being written back to your super secure database on its mega server is correct data - you simply cannot guarantee it.

WFW was OK - used that for a while before 98 - NEVER had any issues with memory data corruption either (various flavours of Clipper and MS C)

We have had a few minor problems running our latest software on 98 but it will run but XP is recommended - we are now using CA Visual Objects.

I like OO but still have problems getting used to GUI

[Martin_1962]

ANyway I'm off now - too late for computers now

Bye

[TheBoy]

Since advent of NT3.5, nobody should have been using the old 16 bit and 16/32bit thunked Windows in business. NT always has been a network aware, secure, multitasking (but still single user until Winframe came along) OS.

Anyway, enough of why Win9x is crap, what about my original query?

[Martin_1962]

Since advent of NT3.5, nobody should have been using the old 16 bit and 16/32bit thunked Windows in business. NT always has been a network aware, secure, multitasking (but still single user until Winframe came along) OS.

Anyway, enough of why Win9x is crap, what about my original query?

NT 3.5 was very poor at running DOS apps, Dos 6.22 doesn't multitask - where do you go?

[TheBoy]

NT 3.5 was very poor at running DOS apps

Soz, gotta disagree again. Used to use NT3.5 to run DOS Microsoft Mail MTAs (before MMTA came along for OS/2, and later NT)

[Martin_1962]

Not hot with Clipper though - didn't work well until W2000 even NT4 had issues

[TheBoy]

Not hot with Clipper though - didn't work well until W2000 even NT4 had issues

Tell the supplier to fix their crap database

[Martin_1962]

Not hot with Clipper though - didn't work well until W2000 even NT4 had issues

Tell the supplier to fix their crap database

Oi we're the supplier!

Our VO version is coming along well - the demo version is getting good feedback.

Bugs are disappearing at a great rate

[TheBoy]

Oi we're the supplier!