On 2011-09-10, Tom wrote:
Dual-booting or multi-booting is one good option. Another would be to use a
virtual machine. Win98 might even be fine in a virtual machine on fairly
low-spec physical machines. Mostly legacy stuff opens just fine in
LibreOffice.
Win98 is lightweight and is fine for virtual machines, as far as you
make sure it has ACPI enabled.
Some virtual machines are not detected by the windows setup as
ACPI-compliant and this will make Win98 be CPU-intensive, because it
does not use the ACPI idle instructions and relies on busy waiting
instead.
According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186111 the setup parameter
is /P J
Also, please note there's a bug in Windows 98 NDIS that causes a
protection error in 2.2 Ghz or faster CPUs, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312108
But I wonder if there are non-official fixes for the NDIS bug around
the Internet.
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