On Feb 2, 6:46*am, 98 Guy wrote:
Lee wrote:
There is one minor sticking point with current Flash with KernelEx
use. *In my case I could install a very high version, but can NOT
use it because my CPU doesn't have the internals to use the more
modern instructions required for said Flash of recent vintage.

I really can't believe that Java is any different in that regard,
but I hear nothing on that front at all. *Especially to what
versions would be the maximum for the various defective CPUs of
ancient design. *My MMX CPU is stuck with Flash 9 dot something

I don't want to sound too beligerant or condescending when I say this,
but I have no sympathy for anyone running win-98 on anything less than
an 800+ mhz P3, and by rights there is no excuse to NOT be running
win-98 on even a low-end P4 system.

For several years now, you could practically go to any garbage dump or
municipal waste electronics drop-off depot and walk away with the guts
or chasis of a P4 machine made in 2004 or 2005 and for about $50 add a
new hard drive and install win-98 on it.

I'm seeing refurbished IBM desktop machines with 512 mb ram, 40 gb hard
drive, 2.8 ghz P4 for sale at surplus electronics stores for $100 (and
they come with XP pre-installed). *If you have your win-98 CD, it's just
a matter of re-formatting the drive and installing win-98 on them.

I really don't understand why people don't do themselves a favor and get
their head out of their ass and take their hard drive out of their P2
systems, throw the systems in the garbage and pick up a used or dis-used
or refurbished P4 machine.

I've been building DOS/Windows-based PC's from component parts since
1987, so putting together a PC from spare parts, and installing many
various versions of Windows from the boxes and boxes of Software CD's
that I have is second nature to me, so maybe I'm over-estimating the
computing IQ of people out there (like Lee) that are still running
Win-98 on original 12-year-old hardware.

Sorry to expose your prejudices in public like this, but the rural
poor really do have to live with dial up speeds and the decided lack
of decent 'give away' computers such as you describe. What I got
instead is a big city recycler who wants $800 for the system you
describe as walking away with me from some non-exsistant dump site.
They don't have drop-off depots at these rural, EPA compliant
landfills, just the recycler in the big city who wants $80 for a 5.25
inch floppy drive.

Right now my FireFox 2 does nothing so I suppose it's related to all
the above issues as in some unannounced requirement for a 350 MHz
minimum processor speed that I'll never find because the page won't
load for me. Or they, thinking like you and most of america, didn't
even bother to state that requirement since no-one would still be
using such an old computer these days. Back of the bus is the only
phrase missing. Color means nothing compared to poverty. Just how
hard did you TRY to understand in the first place? It's much easier
to insult anyone's intelligence than to actually use the gray matter,
you certainly proved that much.

Try 15 year old hardware that I built myself from JDR.com. I haven't
been able to afford another one since. Seriously. All I've ever been
given in the computer realm is 286s and 386s - I never did a thing
with them. So even that end is quite a bit lower than you could
possibly concieve of. Or you could just be one of those guys that
holds the bar up way too high - they tend to have kids that kill them
in their sleep, karma at work don't ya know. Nice way to go I hear,
but no real help for me around here. Insults plenty, real help zip.