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  • Re: Windows 9x + USB Support

    From Real User@1:103/705 to Mike Powell on Sun Jan 7 06:06:02 2024
    On 2023-11-27, Mike Powell <Mike.Powell@f105.n2320.z1.fidonet> wrote:

    Was USB support added by the time that Windows 98 SE was released, or was that feature not included until ME was released?

    Mike


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    Head to https://legacyupdate.net from win98se, install the Windows Update
    addon and update your machine the furthest you can.
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  • From Tom Moore@1:135/205 to Real User on Sun Jan 7 18:21:52 2024
    On 2023-11-27, Mike Powell <Mike.Powell@f105.n2320.z1.fidonet> wrote:

    Was USB support added by the time that Windows 98 SE was released, or was that feature not included until ME was released?

    I know that win98 first release had usb, can't say about for when 95 may have had usb support if it ever did.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Tom Moore on Mon Jan 8 06:34:00 2024
    Tom Moore wrote to Real User <=-

    I know that win98 first release had usb, can't say about for when 95
    may have had usb support if it ever did.

    Windows 95 OSR2 had spotty support for USB 1.1.



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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to TOM MOORE on Mon Jan 8 09:58:00 2024
    Was USB support added by the time that Windows 98 SE was released, or was
    that feature not included until ME was released?

    I know that win98 first release had usb, can't say about for when 95 may have d usb support if it ever did.

    I have not tried the update suggestion yet but what I can tell so far with
    98SE is that it seems to know what a USB port is but does not contain any generic drivers that allow it to "just work" like more recent versions of Windows have and, IIRC, linux always seemed to have.

    So you have USB ports that 98SE sort of knows about but that you cannot
    really use for anything unless you have the specific driver for your
    hardware.


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