<story><title>Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14903/why-does-part-of-the-windows-98-setup-program-look-older-than-the-rest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>none_to_remain</author><text>I was blown away when the Windows XP installation process required me to find a 3.5&amp;quot; floppy for storage drivers.</text></item><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>Windows XP installation process seemed something similar.&lt;p&gt;I remember I was blown away the first time I installed from an ubuntu live cd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>...not to mention the &amp;#x27;Aaaaarrrgh!!!!&amp;#x27; moment I had when finding that the brand spanking new network adapter I had purchased during my student days had no floppy with drivers in the box.&lt;p&gt;Oh no. The manual stated I could simply go online to find the required drivers on the new-fangled world wide web.&lt;p&gt;Which, incidentally, was why I had bought the adapter in the first place.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14903/why-does-part-of-the-windows-98-setup-program-look-older-than-the-rest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>none_to_remain</author><text>I was blown away when the Windows XP installation process required me to find a 3.5&amp;quot; floppy for storage drivers.</text></item><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>Windows XP installation process seemed something similar.&lt;p&gt;I remember I was blown away the first time I installed from an ubuntu live cd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p_l</author><text>Because on PC, the FDC is probably the only storage component you could be sure to address at one time.</text></comment>