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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:36:42 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin without Win32
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:12:25PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>There would certainly be a real detriment in the fact that cygwin 
>>would stop working for Windows 95/98/Me. If we could focus just on NT 
>>class systems, there is all sorts of improvements that we could make. 
>>I don't think that all of the people using those systems would be too 
>>happy with us, though, as much as I'd like to ditch them.
>
>Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are 
>compared with NT and greater?

The fact that Pierre Humblet uses Windows Me is reason enough for me to
keep it around.  I wouldn't want to lose his contributions to the
project and, perhaps more importantly, his ability to tolerate me when I
get crabby.

cgf

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