[H-GEN] Win98 bug

[Campbell]

(Note reply-to: being general vs "Campbell" <bofh at ledanet.com.au>)

Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.1998
IE 4.0 4.72.3110
Uptime: 14:19:38:55

It's not that hard....

Its just not that easy, either.

Just like a linux box, if it is properly setup, W98 has it's uses.

#1 sales people who cant use a (real) OS
#2 people who don't know any better

bofh at ledanet.com.au


>(Note reply-to: being general vs "Luke Grant" <skywalke at webexpress.net.au>)
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>49.7 days......WOW!!!
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>I dont think i will ever need to worry about that bug......4 days is the
>best i have ever got out of 98.
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>Luke
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>Luke Grant
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marshall, Joshua <MarshallJ at switch.aust.com>
>To: general at lists.humbug.org.au <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
>Date: Friday, 5 March 1999 8:49
>Subject: [H-GEN] Win98 bug
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>>(Note reply-to: being general vs "Marshall, Joshua"
><MarshallJ at switch.aust.com>)
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>>This was good for a laugh (from the Netsavers Software Newsletter):
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>>Windows 98 Updates Will Tackle Bug
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>>Bob Trott, InfoWorld Electric
>>
>>Posted at 5:24 PM PT, Mar 3, 1999
>>A bizarre bug that causes some Windows 98 systems to freeze if they have
>>been used for 49.7 straight days will be fixed in forthcoming updates to
>>the operating system, a Microsoft representative said Wednesday.
>>
>>Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 98 and OEM Service Release 1 (OSR1) are
>>both due in the second quarter of this year, the representative said.
>>OSR
>>1, which will be available on new PCs then, went into its second beta
>>release this week.
>>
>>Also, due to beta testers' complaints that SP1 is too big and unwieldy,
>>Microsoft has eliminated the new features it planned to include in the
>>service pack, and instead will focus only on updates.
>>
>>"There was a sort of laundry list of features in it, and they're
>>slimming
>>it down because Microsoft has always considered [service packs] to be
>>updates to existing features, not [a vehicle for] new functionality,"
>>the
>>representative said.
>>
>>SP1 likely be available in two forms -- a full download, or in
>>components
>>that users will be able to choose. Users who request the service pack on
>>a
>>CD-ROM will get the full package, the representative said.
>>
>>Both SP1 and OSR 1 will address a flaw in Windows 98 that causes some
>>systems to freeze if they have been in continuous operation for 49.7
>>days.
>>The problem, which stems from a timing algorithm in the operating
>>system's
>>vtdapi.vxd file, has not been reported by users, but was discovered by
>>Microsoft, the representative said.
>>
>>News of the bug, which can be solved by rebooting, was greeted by
>>laughter
>>from Microsoft critics who consider Windows an unreliable operating
>>system.
>>
>>"Hats off to anyone who was able to keep their Windows system running
>>that
>>long in the first place," one observer quipped. "They probably figured
>>nobody would get 50 straight days out of it anyway."
>>
>>
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