Originally Posted by Tipstaff

Don't use it myself, but I have clients that do. None on new hardware, btw (almost impossible to run 98SE on new Intel hardware... dunno about AMD though). In fact, I just got through repairing one. Stupid client tried installing a USB device that f'd everything to hell.

I tell you... compare 98SE to anything that has come after it, and you just have to sit back and wonder where Microsoft f'd up. 98SE loads fast, runs fast, launches apps fast, and shuts down fast on minimal hardware. Vista can't even do this on a system 3 - 4 generations newer than this computer I just got through working on unless you run on a machine that's setup for RAID 0 on 10-15k drives, has 4GB of stupidly fast DDR2, and is running a quad core or better CPU.