as i said many times in chat i am going buy a new computer (t-bird 900, 128 ram, sb128 pci...) and i need know which is better win98 or winme? things i am looking for are:

stability (MOST IMPORTANT)

dos mode support (with sound) - i plan to play dosmame, dos versions of pro pinball games and more

system requirements (even though both oses will go quite fast)

also consider that winme costs $10 more from the company i am buying computer from and that windows media player 7 sux.

-- david oliver (davedude1414@yahoo.com), January 31, 2001

Answers

If you're planning to play any DOS games, you definitely do NOT want to get WinME. It has terrible support for such things. WinME has lots of extra bloat compared to 98SE too. 98SE is also a lot more stable, in my experience.

-- seymour (seymour@iname.com), January 31, 2001.

I don't have too many problems with Me, but, yes, it is a lot more effort to get it running smoothly. Especially if you have hardware that is not very common. If I were to advise people on Me, then it would be: Wait a few months until hardware vendors have updated and debugged their drivers.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), January 31, 2001.