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Date: | Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:19:46 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: mintty doesn't run on NT4 due to lack of GetConsoleWindow |
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Christopher Faylor wrote: >> (And to be honest I don't see the point in Cygwin 1.7 still supporting >> NT4. Anyone willing to stick with an OS that's been unsupported for >> five years should be more than happy to stick with Cygwin 1.5.) > > I know it's unsupported but people still use it and, perhaps more > unimportantly, it really is a pretty nice OS. The UI isn't bad and it's > pretty responsive. So, I guess it's a "would be nice". I also noted > yesterday that X doesn't work there due to an illegal instruction. I don't > exactly understand why that is yet. Not to be too OT, but I remember getting demos of NT back in the days of 90 MHz Pentium machines and being very unimpressed. I run Win2K on a VM under XP on a laptop and it's really fast. Maybe the hardware has finally caught up to the software :-) Ralph -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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