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  • AndyCF
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    The only 'benefit' I can think of with Win M.E vs 98 is the desktop icons are a bit nicer. There's little else to really recommend it (stepping aside any "ancient OS" issues here) , as you lose 'real DOS' mode too compared to 98.
  • onomatopoeia99
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    AndyCF wrote: »
    The only 'benefit' I can think of with Win M.E vs 98 is the desktop icons are a bit nicer. There's little else to really recommend it (stepping aside any "ancient OS" issues here) , as you lose 'real DOS' mode too compared to 98.
    It's still lurking in there as ME was still built on the MS-DOS kernel, but MS made it quite a bit harder to get to.

    I don't understand why anyone would want to us ME specifically, if a DOS kernel version of Windows is needed then I'd go to 98SE.
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  • molerat
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    edited 18 December 2017 at 1:42PM
    custardy wrote: »
    Op has posted about Windows 10,8 and 7. Why not continue with all variants?
    roll on MS DOS!
    I am sure I have a set of 3.5" floppies for 3.1 somewhere :o
  • AndyCF
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    onomatopoeia99 wrote: »
    It's still lurking in there as ME was still built on the MS-DOS kernel, but MS made it quite a bit harder to get to.

    I don't understand why anyone would want to us ME specifically, if a DOS kernel version of Windows is needed then I'd go to 98SE.

    Oh I do agree, I think I really should of said something along the lines of they made it more work (harder) to get to a 'real dos' command line I guess. :)
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