A clever hack revives Windows 98 on a locked‑down internet appliance, but it's not what you'd call a practical PC.

A retrocomputing project shows Windows 98 running on a Compaq iPAQ IA-2 using clever boot tricks and BIOS workarounds.

Next, I used sys.com to copy the bootable files off of the startup diskette on the hard drive's boot sector. The hard drive now boots, but only into the windows 98 dos mode.<BR><BR>How can I get the ...

Devices that were limited to only run a web browser were relatively common around 2000, as many people wanted to surf the Information Super Highway, but didn’t quite want to get a regular PC ...

I have Windows 2000 and XP installed on separate partitions. I just made a FAT32 partition on the same drive and installed Windows 98. Of course it's NT aware so it didn't overwrite the boot sector of ...

The lovely thing about the x86 architecture is its decades of backwards compatibility, which makes it possible to run 1990s operating systems on modern-day hardware, with relatively few obstacles in ...