Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42A54258.2010901@iopan.gda.pl> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:44:40 +0200 From: Jacek Piskozub User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050605 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: >I guess eventually all of those old Win9x systems will have to stop >working and people will have to buy new XP systems. Who knows when >that will happen, though? Correction. Some of us will migrate directly to Linux. I personally use WindowsME for the win32 programs I cannot (yet) run with wine and Linux for the rest of the stuff. I plane no upgrade to Windows XP (Longhorn or whatever comes next from the Dark Lords)... Jacek -- "Microsoft tried to create products that even a fool could use, but they ended up with something that only a fool would want to use." F.W. van Wensveen, 2004 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/