On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Paul Quinn wrote to Matt Munson:   
      
    MM> HAs anyone tried keeping a windows 98 box up without the security    
    MM> patches, or is that sound like a pointless idea?   
      
    PQ> This copy of Win98SE has been running almost continuously since    
    PQ> May 2004.  It started life on various 486s & Pentiums, the last of    
    PQ> which was a P90 with 64Mb of RAM.  It currently runs in a    
    PQ> VirtualBox VM, and has been running so since Februrary 2012.  It's    
    PQ> never seen any 'patch'.   
      
   never ever? no windows updates at all??? that's hard to believe unless it was   
   never connected to the internet until after m$ stopped updates for it...   
      
   my w98se was fully updated when it died... i refused to reinstall it clean if   
   i couldn't get any of the updates... it died a few weeks after m$ stopped   
   selling the update CDs for it :/   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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