Everyone's mileage varies. I don't have dual CPUs and I use FAT32 on all of my drives save one and I only have 372MB or memory but I would never use 98 in preference to 2000/XP. 98/98SE crashes or locks up with depressing regularity for me, always has, regardless of the CPU/Memory, etc. 2000 doesn't crash, runs multiple programs reliably without one program crashing and locking up the system etc. For me, it's all about reliability which Win2K give me, in addition to running all the applications I have. Some folks swear by Linux, others wouldn't have anything except a Mac. To be honest, I think this is the first time I've heard anyone say that 98 works just as well for them but as I said, individual results and levels of satisfaction vary so whatever works for your needs is the best thing available no?

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