May 19, 200521 yr Windows ClassicWindows Classic Professional EditionWindows 9X Professional EditionWindows 9XPWindows 9XperienceWindows 9XtremeWindows 9XeleratedWindows 9XemplarWindows Reduced Bloat EditionWindows MDGxp
May 20, 200521 yr Author azagahl, you da man again! Some great suggestions there. My fave is Windows Classic
May 21, 200521 yr if it supported NTFS and SATA i'd be using it with these packs <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Who and/or what gave you the idea the it wouldnt support SATA?
May 23, 200521 yr No, no, second thoughts - I can see some smarto calling UE Unofficial Experiment. No, we don't want that....Actualy it's XP that stand for XP-riment...What about Windows KE: KILLER Edition ? B) ---> and while we are at it, why not renaming the director of M$? I propose "Bill Gape"...
May 24, 200521 yr I usually use the four-digut build-number when indexing these, treating the whole as one type win9x 0950 original win95 release win9x 1111 OSR2.x releases [Here is OS/2 envy at its height.] win9x 1998 original win98 release win9x 2222 98SE version win9x 3000 Windows multi-errors.I suppose you could always go for OS/R [operating system / real mode], and continue this through. OSR 1 Win95A, B 1,0 1,1 OSR 2 Win95C, D, E 2,0 2,1 2,5 OSR 3 Win98 3,0 OSR 4 Win98SE 4,0 OSR 5 WinME 5,0This treats the whole lot as a single stream, at the major upgrade points, etcOSR/3 is not in my collection, although i do have the rest!Likewise, the NT releases are handled on WinNT numbers, NT 3,1 NT 3,5 NT 4,0 NT 5,0 win2k NT 5,1 winxp NT 5,2 win2k3 NT 6,0 leghorn
May 24, 200521 yr By the way, i normally add service packs in the style of a second-point release, eg nt 5,0 windows 2k nt 5,0,0 windows 2k SP0 nt 5,0,4 windows 2k SP4So the form of this version of Win9x might be osr 4,0,0 raw win98se osr 4,0,2 win98se + sp2 osr 4,1,2 win98se + sp2 + 98me packBTW, i have been doing this ever since win3x days win300 windows 3.00 win305 windows 3.00 + Multimedia extensions win31x windows 3.1x win33x windows 3.1x + workgroups addinThere really was a win310, win311, win330 and win331. win311 (ie 3.11 with no workgroups) was an OEM release only win330 (ie 3.10 + workgroup extensions) was a very slow proggie, dubbed "windows for warehouses". warehouses and workgroups are the same length and suitable for hex-editing.W
May 24, 200521 yr OSR 1 Win95A, B 1,0 1,1OSR 2 Win95C, D, E 2,0 2,1 2,5If I may make a comment:OSR [Orbiting Satellite Revisited] versions above are actually:OSR 1 Win950, A 1,0 1,1OSR 2 Win95B0, B1, C 2,0 2,1 2,5or if u wish:95 RTM [4.00.0950]95A OSR1 [4.00.0951]95B OSR2.0 [4.00.1111]95B OSR2.1 [4.00.1212]95C OSR2.5 [4.00.1214]More on this:http://www.mdgx.com/ver.htm#TABHave fun.
May 24, 200521 yr Ok guys, let's put it simply:Windows UV 2.1 (Unofficial Version)With Windows UV you'll get a tan before summer starts! B)
May 24, 200521 yr I always enjoyed MDGx's site. He seems cluey on this sort of stuff. None the same, while i have a good number of these OS's, they have not been really used a lot. From having to support different versions, and achieve different ends, i consider the following to be a useful presentation.On the other hand, i tend to be multi-os, so i don't let the subtler distinctions worry me unless it is important. The OS/2 versions mattered because fix-packs were based on it. Windows 9x brings with it a lot of various name-changes, and it is better to deal with the thing as a unified product. Even if one stops at 98se, one still has to make room for "multierrors". At the moment, i have not found sufficient reason to go past the DOS version numbers (ie 0950, 1111, 1998, 2222, 3000), and these are readily accessable to the user in any case. That is, if one sees the dos version as 7.10.1998 one knows one deals with Win98 FE. On the other hand, if there is good reason to depart from this, i would consider it.The idea of using the 95-series OS/R numbers to extend through these five makes some sense, eg 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. The UI and components are changed essentially at these five points, and the other changes are more akin to point changes, rather than core changes.For example, the shell and the underlying DOS were changed at 1.0, 2.0 and 5.0. 2.0 features the integration of IE, while 5.0 includes some of the rollback features. One finds the 95/98 branding change at 1.0 and 3.0, with 5.0 partly branded as me. One thinks of the intermediate releases like 0951, 1212, 1214, 1999, 2000, as point releases of these products. I normally refer to the beasties as, eg Win0950 or Win2222 or whatever, rather than Windows 98. The NT stream is referred to as Winnt 5.0.4 (2000 sp4) or Winnt 4.0.6a (NT4 with sp6a). I still have not got around to deciding the notation for home/pro/server/data centre, but the final form might be ntpro 5.0.4 or ntsrv 5.2.1. The same sort of thing existed with OS/2 3.x (ie every combination of with or without WinOS2 files, every combination of with or without Networking [one makes this OS/2 3.1], and salmon or blue disks.In version 4 they eliminated this distinction, and made just OS/2 warp. It has been single-version ever since.
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