98 and XP?

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What is the main difference between windows 98 and XP?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows 98 is a 16-bit operating system based on the old MS-DOS platform.
Windows XP is an advanced 32-bit operating system based on the highly reliable
Windows 2000 kernel and is not based on MS-DOS. Windows XP is far more
secure when installed on a drive formatted NTFS.

Windows XP/Windows 98 Matchup
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/wxpvswin98.mspx

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[Bruce Chambers]

What is the main difference between windows 98 and XP?

Win9x is a badly kludged together hybrid 16-bit/32-bit operating system
with a graphical user interface (GUI) shell crudely mounted upon MS-DOS.
WinXP is a full 32-bit operating system with a pure GUI shell.

Comparing WinXP to Win98 is a lot like comparing a Lexus to a Yugo --
the only similarities are entirely superficial.

Compare Windows XP Professional to Prior Versions of Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/default.mspx


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[Alex Nichol]

Windows 98 is a 16-bit operating system based on the old MS-DOS platform.

It is not a 16 bit system, and uses DOS only to load the files. Once
installed it uses an entirely 32 bit kernel which takes control of
hardware and takes interrupts. DOS is not involved, though some old DOS
code is used for minor and DOS oriented ancillary matters. And it
provides for running true DOS in a subsidiary DOS Virtual Machine.
When these call DOS through interrupt it is vectored back to the 32 bit
kernel.

But that kernel is older design to make provision for handling 'legacy'
16 bit applications and the DOS virtual machine. These have to be
allowed direct access to hardware, from which arises most instabilities

 

[Alex Nichol]

Win9x is a badly kludged together hybrid 16-bit/32-bit operating system
with a graphical user interface (GUI) shell crudely mounted upon MS-DOS.
WinXP is a full 32-bit operating system with a pure GUI shell.

See my response to Carey. And the descriptions in Andrew Schulmanns
'Unauthorised Windows 95'. To describe it as a GUI crudely mounted on
MSDOS is a travesty. That was Windows 3.x

 

[Bruce Chambers]

See my response to Carey. And the descriptions in Andrew Schulmanns
'Unauthorised Windows 95'. To describe it as a GUI crudely mounted on
MSDOS is a travesty. That was Windows 3.x

Well, Win98's adaptation was certainly much less crude than Win3x's,
but it still wasn't a pure 32-bit, graphical OS.

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[Ron Martell]

Well, Win98's adaptation was certainly much less crude than Win3x's,
but it still wasn't a pure 32-bit, graphical OS.

And neither is Windows XP, at least not the pure graphical part.

Or have I somehow missed the graphical version of CHKDSK, IPCONFIG,
and others?


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