>>When you wrote "Hacker's Guide", did you make sure that things behaved with different platforms?
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>Actually, if you read the Hardware and Software recommendations section, you'll see that I run NT on all my machines. In a one-person shop, running one OS is easier. Ted does (or did, then) run 98 on a notebook and NT on his desk. Can't say for sure what Doug (our Tech Editor) was running.
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Actually, that issue helps explain why I've got 5-6 machines running here at the moment; too much of my stuff needs to be checked for it's behavior under Win98, a couple flavors of NT, a couple flavors of Win2K, and I can't bring myslf to trying to find compatible hardware that would run on all the different OS versions - NT Server Enterprise is far from a fan of my card of choice for Win98 installation...and Win2K really dislikes the MS Natural keyboard knockoff I run on most of my other machines.