>The underlying core for Win98 is still basically another flavor of Win95, which at its core is DOS. The NT kernel does much more to protect itself thatn Win98. And MS is still not merging Win9x with the Win2K core - we still have one more Win9x product due to ship - Millenium. And then if MS is serious, the NEXT home and business platform kernals will merge...
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>Did I hear a moose saying "Hey Rockie, watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!" out in Redmond?

So, you're saying Win98.2 basically just borrowed the NT-like message. Well, it's a start :)

I've found 98 very robust, anyway, so it's hard to for me detect if there've been any deeper changes - the install took 1/2 hour, and it must've replaced just about everything in the OS, so I was hoping *maybe*...anyway, I hope you're hope is right about the eventual merging kernals.