Jorpho wrote:I'm not exactly clear on why one would choose Win95C over Win98 in the first place..?
Well, here are my reasons:
1) I'm using it for a Pentium Pro machine. Not many Windows games I'm going to play on it anyhow — not that Win95 should have a lot of compatibility issues. So I basically only need Windows for FAT32, proper AWE64 general MIDI emulation and installing games from official compilation disks like Wing Commander Kilrathi Saga that, like many other compilations, requires Win95 for installation. So, it's a bit of a "less is better" mentality;
2) I don't have any hardware that I would need Win98 for — no AGP, no USB (the USBSUPP I mentioned is needed by the Daemon Tools);
3) Win95 is supposed to be faster — and it really is, quite noticeably in case of my hardware. Shorter load times, for one;
4) Win95 is my first OS, actually, so there is the nostalgia factor, too;
5) My machine was released around 1996, so it's actually more period correct. I do realise that Pentium Pro were meant to be used with a WinNT, so it's not an entirely valid point.
I was also curious to see if Win95 is really that bad as they say. I can't say that it's any less stable than Win98 or that I'm missing any functionality.