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Windows 98

Charles_B_Intel
Employee
‎03-20-2021 11:03 PM
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Is there any way to revive windows 98 professional? It .... runs ..... so ..... very ..... very ..... slow ..... now....... Its all been loaded on a very high end system at the time. 4Gb memory and what happened?
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AlHill
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‎03-21-2021 03:18 AM
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4GB ram?  W98se could only use 24MB. 

Get an old motherboard with a 486 processor and 16MB of memory if you want to go back in time.

Trying to run an OS that is a quarter of a century old  on modern hardware - and it is not even April 1st.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)

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