Does anyone actually still use win95 or 98?

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Re: win95
By: poison to All on Tue May 12 2020 09:34:53


poison> Does anyone actually still use win95 or 98?

likely not...

if you're asking because of the echo's tag, it is historical... basically too much juggling, renaming, and adding/removing of areas as each new winwhatever version came out and old ones were retired...


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poison>> Does anyone actually still use win95 or 98?

likely not...

Except for fun. I have an Oracle VM box with Win95, and sometimes use it just for the nostalgia.

It's also fun to use a VM box like that when you get a spam mail telling you that you won a gazillion Euro and only have to pay EUR299 to get it. The spammers seem to be rather surprised when their usual tools don't work... :)



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So this is more of just current windows discussion or windows in general now I guess?

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Re: win95
By: poison to All on Tue May 12 2020 09:34:53

poison> Does anyone actually still use win95 or 98?

likely not...

if you're asking because of the echo's tag, it is historical...
basically too much juggling, renaming, and adding/removing of areas as each new winwhatever version came out and old ones were retired...

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Thats funny.

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poison>> Does anyone actually still use win95 or 98?

likely not...

Except for fun. I have an Oracle VM box with Win95, and sometimes
use it just for the nostalgia.

It's also fun to use a VM box like that when you get a spam mail telling you that you won a gazillion Euro and only have to pay EUR299
to get it. The spammers seem to be rather surprised when their usual
tools don't work... :)

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Re: Re: win95
By: poison to mark lewis on Tue May 12 2020 16:31:00


poison> So this is more of just current windows discussion or windows
poison> in general now I guess?

yeah, winwhatever in general... when the echo is even used... the traffic is nowhere near what it was 10+ years ago...


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Hi! Pat,

On 05/13/2020 12:34 AM, you wrote to All:

Does anyone actually still use win95 or 98?

Yes, Win98SE. Short version... one machine currently in a VirtualBx VM that's been running since the early naughties (2004/5?), originally in hardware.

Cheers,
Paul.

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Re: Re: win95
By: mark lewis to poison on Tue May 12 2020 06:24 pm

Yeah I remember fidonet being super busy back in 91.

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poison -> mark lewis skrev 2020-05-13 01:24:

Yeah I remember fidonet being super busy back in 91.

Don't you remember if they told you, back then, to use your real name in Fidonet? Surely your parents didn't baptise you "poison", did they?



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Oh crap when I set all this back up I knew I forgot something. 8-)

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poison -> mark lewis skrev 2020-05-13 01:24:

Yeah I remember fidonet being super busy back in 91.

Don't you remember if they told you, back then, to use your real
name in Fidonet? Surely your parents didn't baptise you "poison", did they?

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Re: win95
By: Bj”rn Felten to poison on Wed May 13 2020 02:34 am

Should be fixed once the board recycles. Thanks for pointing that out. This is day 2 or 3 having FIDO backup on here.

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Re: win95
By: Bj”rn Felten to poison on Wed May 13 2020 02:34 am

Don't you remember if they told you, back then, to use your real name in Fidonet?

That's a per-echo rule though, isn't it?

Surely your parents didn't baptise you "poison", did they?

You never know. :-)

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Hi! Björn,

On 05/13/2020 10:34 AM, you wrote to Patrick Siglin:

poison -> mark lewis skrev 2020-05-13 01:24:

Yeah I remember fidonet being super busy back in 91.

Don't you remember if they told you, back then, to use your real
name in Fidonet? Surely your parents didn't baptise you "poison", did they?

Go easy on him. His message actually conforms with the last-posted moderator rules for this echo (2007). 8-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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Re: win95
By: Paul Quinn to Björn Felten on Wed May 13 2020 04:23 pm

Go easy on him. His message actually conforms with the last-posted moderator rules for this echo (2007). 8-)

Yay! I was following the rules by mistake! I did intend to use real names on fidonet. It's fixed now. 8-)

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Re: Re: win95
By: poison to mark lewis on Tue May 12 2020 18:24:46


no idea what you're replying to :(

sorry


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Thats strange it didn't send anything. I use multimail. Hopefully this one gets through.

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Re: Re: win95
By: poison to mark lewis on Tue May 12 2020 18:24:46

no idea what you're replying to :(

sorry

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Re: Re: win95
By: Patrick Siglin to mark lewis on Wed May 13 2020 11:38:00

Thats strange it didn't send anything. I use multimail. Hopefully
this one gets through.

the key is that you at least quoted something this time... the last time there was no quote... other than the extremely icky top posting, i knew what you were replying to this time ;)


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Surely your parents didn't baptise you "poison", did they?

You never know. :-)

Especially if he was born back during the hair band days. :D

Mike


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mark lewis wrote to Patrick Siglin <=-

the key is that you at least quoted something this time... the last
time there was no quote... other than the extremely icky top posting, i knew what you were replying to this time ;)

I quoted the other time also or thought I did. I guess not. It's been a while using offline mailers and the BBS. 8-)


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Re: win95
By: Bj”rn Felten to mark lewis on Tue May 12 2020 08:20 pm

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likely not...

Except for fun. I have an Oracle VM box with Win95, and sometimes use it just for the nostalgia.

In here MSDOS emulation sometimes for old games and to run the BlueWave so I can read this stuff like in the old days!!!
I remember long time ago those competitions to see who was the quickest rebuilding the machine with Win95/98 and XP.

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