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Windows 98 is a flaky OS, IIRC it used to crash with BSoDs multiple times a day even on real hardware. That AltaVista standalone crawler software probably could
by mkup 9y ago
Windows 98 is a flaky OS, IIRC it used to crash with BSoDs multiple times a day even on real hardware. That AltaVista standalone crawler software probably could run much better under NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. And NTFS allows for much larger datasets than FAT32. NTFS hasn't much changed since that time, by the way.
- digi_owl 9y agoMaybe i am lucky, but what most "BSODs" on 9x amounted to was a "the program is unresponsive".
- derefr 9y agoOld Windows versions crashed so much because hardware manufacturers at the time slapped together poor drivers, and Microsoft couldn't do much about that if they wanted people's computers to work at all. The #1 thing that as improved since then, was simply that more of the drivers are now written by Microsoft themselves. The #2 thing is Microsoft getting enough power over hardware makers to force driver quality-assurance and signing on them. Which is all to say: if you run Windows 98 on hardware that has good drivers written for it—or especially on virtual hardware whose "drivers" are just paravirtualized calls into a modern OS kernel—your copy of Windows 98 won't be BSoDing any time soon.
- Macha 9y agoThe OP's issues seem to indicate that this is not the case, the system would just crash under hdd load in those virtualized systems.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoThere's also the thing where, uh, Windows NT has full memory protection. On Windows 9x it was trivial for any app to hose the OS, because critical memory regions were unprotected.
- benjojo12 9y agoYup, 98 is trash for this use, This is why it makes is so exciting to try and run a "production service" on!
- sp332 9y agoWin98 SE was a lot more stable than original Win98, but I agree about 2000 being a better platform all around.