Dominus wrote:NT based systems versus the inferior Windows 9x system, perhaps?
That's a matter of some debate, depends on what you mean by inferior.
For the 9x kernal yes, the crashes could be annoying but for me I have seen enough of these over NT kernal OS's too that it's a wash.
Also, unlike others, I never really did have issues with ME.
I gave it a lot of iron to play with when I first got it so maybe this is why.
I do however get the secuirty aspect of the latest NT kernal OS's when connecting to the inet and this makes sense.
The interesting thing I have liked to see is the folks over at MSFN have done with these older OS's like fixes for multi-core CPU and Hyperthreading etc...
I have a dual-boot machine with ME + 2K on a 3GHz P4 with Hyperthreading, I have never seen ME run so fast.
Now back on topic:
I have used VM's for awhile to mess around with differnt *nix distro's and such.
I also use a production VM for Windows XP 64-bit Edition or you could call this Windows Server 2003 Heavy Edition 😉
I work from home and needed something that would still run Office 2000, so it was either XP 32-bit or 64-bit.
I have tried VM's with 95, 98 and ME installed and none of them did what I wanted them to do hence why I created that dual-boot box.
No matter where you go, there you are...