On 30 Apr 98 about Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive and Win95S, Dave Jones
<[log in to unmask]> had this to say:

> As far as I know, OSR2 is only available on new systems and not on just
> hard drives.. I've seen people selling the OSR2, but doubt the legality of
> it..

Sometimes you can get it legally if you upgrade your system: I got my
copy when I purchased a new hard drive from a computer shop and asked
them to install Win95.


> As an extra thought, you can purchase a copy of Windows 98 from Microsoft
> from their site
> for $29.95 and get all the benefits of OSR2 and more..

Not exactly true, it's only the Beta 3 version and still has a few
problems that were later worked out, as for instance some (not all)
cable modems.

Kris Shapar