FWIW, i have 98 first and second editions rattling around for giggles on a drive
somewhere in a junk drawer. primarily I use knoppix (current 4.0.2), which is a
'live cd' variant of debian and does everything i need to do, but I keep an install of
xp handy on my primary machine for sites that just HAVE to see IE and XP or they
won't work the way they are supposed to.
my brother has a stripped install of 95b on a machine he plays with from time to time.
used the '98micro' installer and has the desktop of 95b running on it. quite fast, but
a comparable linux install (slackware) still smokes it. 95 was good for what it was,
which was to get a truly mac-competitive interface into the hands of windows users.
that and it served the very useful purpose of making 286 and 386 computers obsolete,
which is how I got into the hobby. worked for a hospital at the time and hauled more
obsolete rigs than i could count to the storage area to await the dispostion of the IT
folks. Got my hands on several of those old boxes to learn how they worked and
were built. Learned a lot about them on my own, as BBSing was the way you got
know how then, before the internet was widespread as it is now.
