Milan Babuskov wrote:

> Nando Dessena wrote:
>
>>Lately I have been having exactly the same dilemma for an application
>>of mine: use the system scheduler or roll my own? Once all the pros
>>and cons of the two alternatives were written down, the system
>>scheduler won hands down. This rules out plain Windows 98 but that's a
>>favour I do to my customers, not a disservice.
>
> There is a Task Scheduler on Win98 which is also part of the system. You
> can put complex stuff in .bat files and make it run that. But who's
> brave enough to leave Win98 running 24/7? In fact, it's internal time
> manager has a counter that makes Windows restart every 43 days (or
> something like that).

Most of my station remote servers are W98SE, and with the correct
updates there is no problem with 24/7 operation, and even when we do
reboot a machine it's back up in 10-15 seconds. No waiting the 2-3
minutes + for XP to get to a stable state ;)

The equipment management network starts and stops applications as
required and does not need to rely on what the target machine is
actually running :) Current state of everything is stored in the master
EQUIPMENT database.

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