Thanks Herbert, I have the original 1.6 gig hard drive, I have not installed
the fat 32 out of win 98, I only use puter mainly for communications, only
using half of that 1.6, and will give it to daughter next yr at college so
not upgrading. for that reason I was wondering which OS would give her least
trouble , again let me say Win 98 upgrade disk has not been a hassle, no
problems really, but I feel like it runs a lot faster with my 80 megs on Win
95 and probably would not give her any trouble away at school. It seems as
though you throw a rock at this Gateway and it will run on it. I guess it is
"flip a coin " ? I guess I am looking for most stable of the two, original
Win 95 or Upgrade Disk Win 98, for long haul.   Thanks a bunch in advance.

Bobby Sutton



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From: "Herbert Graf" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Operating Systems


> > Just another question here on os systems, my Gateway P5 133XL of
> > course came
> > with win 95, I upgraded to win 98 with upgrade disk. Being a 95
> > model puter
> > it of course does not have USB ports etc, if the only major difference
> > between the two besides drivers( gateway supplied all drivers on disks)
I
> > probably do not need all 98 has to offer, Also
> > when I updated win 95 , mine came with A, ?  I could not find B upgrade,
> > much less C. Mine runs better on 95 , less resource hungry, I keep
wanting
> > to go back to 95 as I mine is so old, 5yrs now, that I feel it
> > will perform
> > better. I am running 80 megs of mem, Question is, am I right in that
>
>      Yes, I do believe that a P5 133 will be happier with win95B, however
if
> I had to choose between win98 and win 95 or win95A I'd probably stick with
> win98 (for the simple reason of FAT32, unless of course you have a small
> hard drive). Win95B and C unfortunately were never in the retail streams,
> you could only get them with a new system purchase. I got my copy of 95B
> from a person who bought a new system a long time ago but switched to
Linux
> and didn't need 95, got it for a good price too. I am certain that someone
> in your area would be willing to sell it to you. TTYL
>
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