Out of all the ways to improve performance, I've just recently heard about shadowing the bios. What this is is copying the bios into RAM at bootup. This works because the bios ROM, compared to RAM, is very slow(50-70 nanoseconds compared to 120-200 nanoseconds). So if the system uses bios info extensively, shadowing might help.

I also read that newer operating systems dont use the bios during operation, meaning shadowing would just take up RAM for no reason.

My question is: Is windows 98 a 'new' OS?
Would shadowing help at all?