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The floppy disk version of Windows 98 came on 39 DMF formatted floppy disks and excluded some additional software components that the CD-ROM version might have featured. The original release of Windows 98 was the last version of Windows to be available on floppy disks, as Windows 98 Second Edition was only available on CD-ROMs.
WIA is a very significant superset of the support for digital still imaging drivers that was provided by the Still Image Architecture (STI) in Windows 98.Whereas STI only provided a low-level interface for doing basic transfers of data to and from the device (as well as the invocation of an image scan process on the Windows machine through the external device), WIA provides a framework through ...
F6 disk is a colloquial name for a floppy disk containing a device driver that enables Windows Setup to install Microsoft Windows on storage devices based on SCSI, SATA, or RAID technologies. All versions of the Windows NT family prior to Windows Vista required F6 disks.
The final version of the MSCDEX program was 2.25, [citation needed] included with Windows 95 and used when creating bootable floppy disks with CD-ROM support. Starting with Windows 95, CD-ROM access became possible through a 32-bit CDFS driver. The driver uses the Microsoft networks interface in MS-DOS.
The old desktop themes included with Windows 98 and Windows Me including the Baseball, Dangerous Creatures, Inside your Computer, Jungle, Leonardo da Vinci, More Windows, Mystery, Nature, Science, Space, Sports, The 60's USA, The Golden Era, Travel, Underwater, Windows 98 and Windows Millennium were removed.
Distribution Media Format (DMF) is a format for floppy disks that Microsoft used to distribute software. [1] [2] It allowed the disk to contain 1680 KiB of data on a 3 1 ⁄ 2-inch disk, instead of the standard 1440 KiB.
Imaging for Windows from Global 360 is document imaging software. Earlier versions of Imaging for Windows were available for Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000. Global360 Imaging for Windows is the upgrade to this Imaging software, which was discontinued as of Windows XP. [1]
Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks. [31] The operating environment is shipped with fifteen programs, [32] and it also introduced the GUI based programs Microsoft Word and Excel, to compete against the then-reigning competitors WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. [27]