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Re: 16 mb problem



Alan Pope wrote:

> On 02/11/05, Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> LOL.  Actually, I don't think Windows 98 will run in 16MB - but I know
>> for a
>> fact that Win95 will.  CDs are pretty easy to find in any decent sized
>> corporate or government office.  Whenever I feel a real need for one I
>> can find one in the office. Odds are, they'd even be legal (at least
>> you'd get a disk complete with license key, and the computer it was
>> originally sold with is now scrap).
> 
> Careful. Many OEM Windows licenses "live and die" with the hardware.
> They're non-transferrable, and are thus invalid if used on a machine
> other than the one it was originally supplied on.

I think all of XP OEM licenses are that way, but I'm fairly certain that was
not the case of most of those Win95 licenses.  But it's a fair comment.
-- 
derek



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