If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Wanted: Windows 98 CD
will 1st edition do? if so i can help ant On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Ian casually suggested: :I need a full Windows 98 CD (not upgrade) with license. The regular :vendors don't supply it any more. : : -- Shave your legs to reply |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
wrote in message ... will 1st edition do? if so i can help ant On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Ian casually suggested: :I need a full Windows 98 CD (not upgrade) with license. The regular :vendors don't supply it any more. I could give you a copy of my OEM Windows 98 SE disk if you want. Jackie |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
|
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Rob Morley wrote:
In article , says... "Jackie" wrote: I could give you a copy of my OEM Windows 98 SE disk if you want. Jackie Not the best idea in the world to offer this with the Microsoft Police (sic) cruising around looking for such words :-) Especially when you have not hidden your posting address through an anonymity site and even that only offers limited protection. Presumably the OP needs the CD because his own (for which he has a license) is lost or damaged and he needs to reinstall it. No harm in that is there? what can you do about damaged one's, I bought a Win 98SE sealed from a computer fair, when I was on Holiday in Devon, £15cash but the cd has a crack in it. Is there anywhere they can be replcaed without paying too much ? Unlikely to be going to Devon for a while and unlikely the guy would refund me if I did, lol andy |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
X-No-Archive: Yes
Well if the OP. has lost or damaged his CD, then I might be able to help. I have 1st edition selling at £15 including delivery. "Rob Morley" wrote in message .com... In article , says... "Jackie" wrote: I could give you a copy of my OEM Windows 98 SE disk if you want. Jackie Not the best idea in the world to offer this with the Microsoft Police (sic) cruising around looking for such words :-) Especially when you have not hidden your posting address through an anonymity site and even that only offers limited protection. Presumably the OP needs the CD because his own (for which he has a license) is lost or damaged and he needs to reinstall it. No harm in that is there? |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Johannes H Andersen wrote in news:3F4576A1.9EA1C912
@sizefitter.com: "Form@C" wrote: "Tim" wrote in : X-No-Archive: Yes Well if the OP. has lost or damaged his CD, then I might be able to help. I have 1st edition selling at £15 including delivery. Under the M$ terms you can't sell it on to a third person can you? Isn't the licence for one single computer only, and not transferrable to any other machine? AFAIK this applies to OEM versions at least. The only official way to replace a damaged disk appears to be via M$, or one of their dealers at least. You would almost certainly have to produce your licence. Yes, it applies to OEM versions, but it is a leap of faith to think that it also applies to retail versions. Ah... but on whose part? The licence enforcer or the licencee? The XP licence is more or less a "permission to use", the buyer does not own the software, he/she is just given permission to use it on a single computer. IOW you can't actually buy XP, only the CD that it comes on! M$ are serious about this. What a load of carp. Linux here I come.... :-) Nothing wrong with Linux, but it can't replace Windows if you have software applications that require Windows. Don't mention emulation, it will run on crutches. Nope - Wine, maybe, but vmware is a different kettle of fish. Most proggies don't seem to mind running under it and, at full screen, you can't tell that you are using a linux box. You are right on one point though, not everything will run. -- Mick http://www.nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini info. Also at http://www.mixtel.co.uk Return email address is munged. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Johannes H Andersen wrote:
[snip] Nothing wrong with Linux, but it can't replace Windows if you have software applications that require Windows. Don't mention emulation, it will run on crutches. I seem to recall wine on Linux running some applications *faster* than native Win32. Even if it's not faster for a particular app there's not much difference in speed with most Windows "emulators" on x86 *nix machines. The binaries are still native x86 and run as such, you don't have to emulate a different architecture. wine just provides the Win32 API. Granted, X isn't as fast for drawing windows as MS Windows (thanks to X's more flexible architecture) but you don't notice that at all unless you've a dog-slow machine. Not everything works on Linux Windows emulators but if it works on Win9x and doesn't do funky stuff with hardware or use custom VxDs there's every chance it'll work perfectly well under wine. Plus you get all the advantages of a real operating system - you'll never get an app that would have crashed Win9x or hogged the processor doing that on your Linux box. Tim -- And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble. - The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
"Form@C" wrote: Johannes H Andersen wrote in news:3F4576A1.9EA1C912 @sizefitter.com: "Form@C" wrote: "Tim" wrote in : X-No-Archive: Yes Well if the OP. has lost or damaged his CD, then I might be able to help. I have 1st edition selling at £15 including delivery. Under the M$ terms you can't sell it on to a third person can you? Isn't the licence for one single computer only, and not transferrable to any other machine? AFAIK this applies to OEM versions at least. The only official way to replace a damaged disk appears to be via M$, or one of their dealers at least. You would almost certainly have to produce your licence. Yes, it applies to OEM versions, but it is a leap of faith to think that it also applies to retail versions. Ah... but on whose part? The licence enforcer or the licencee? The XP licence is more or less a "permission to use", the buyer does not own the software, he/she is just given permission to use it on a single computer. IOW you can't actually buy XP, only the CD that it comes on! M$ are serious about this. From an OEM license: "Software Transfer. You may permanently transfer all of your rights under this EULA only as part of a sale or transfer of the COMPUTER, provided you retain no copies, you transfer all of the SOFTWARE PRODUCTS (including all parts......), and the recipient agrees to the terms of this EULA." The capitals are as in the text. The point is that MS consider an OEM computer+Windows as a single integrated product. If you have a retail Windows version, then that is bought independently of the computer, so it may be possible to transfer that 'product' alone. What a load of carp. Linux here I come.... :-) Nothing wrong with Linux, but it can't replace Windows if you have software applications that require Windows. Don't mention emulation, it will run on crutches. Nope - Wine, maybe, but vmware is a different kettle of fish. Most proggies don't seem to mind running under it and, at full screen, you can't tell that you are using a linux box. You are right on one point though, not everything will run. Thanks for that. I still have some reservations for emulators, at least it is an extra level of complexity to debug if something falls over. If you need a full Windows disc anyway, then what is the advantage compared to running Windows in a partition? Johannes |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Ian wrote:
So my request still stands: I need a full retail Windows 98 CD with license. Surely one of the UK retailers must have a shrink-wrapped box gathering dust in their warehouse somewhere? They go on eBay for about 40 quid. If you don't want to do that buy a copy of Micromart. There are normally several companies who deal in this sort of thing. IIRC it'll set you back about 80 quid. Andy |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Newbie: OC Advice: AMDXP2200 CPU | Donald Bock | Overclocking AMD Processors | 2 | March 12th 05 12:14 AM |
64 bit - Windows Liberty 64bit, Windows Limited Edition 64 Bit, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition 64 Bit, IBM DB2 64 bit - new ! | vvcd | AMD x86-64 Processors | 0 | September 17th 04 09:07 PM |
64 bit - Windows Liberty 64bit, Windows Limited Edition 64 Bit, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition 64 Bit, IBM DB2 64 bit - new ! | vvcd | General | 0 | September 17th 04 09:01 PM |
Anybody here use Linux? | GlueGum | Homebuilt PC's | 170 | August 29th 04 09:15 PM |
64 bit - Windows Liberty 64bit, Windows Limited Edition 64 Bit,Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition 64 Bit, IBM DB2 64 bit - new! | TEL | Overclocking AMD Processors | 0 | January 1st 04 06:59 PM |