X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Trace: 63292362/mk-filter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2C/$b2c-THROTTLED-DYNAMIC/b2c-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/79.74.17.85 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 79.74.17.85 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: johne53@tiscali.co.uk X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsIEAEgbskhPShFV/2dsb2JhbACDf0ewIYFr X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,264,1217804400"; d="scan'208";a="63292362" Message-ID: <003101c9069f$11e9c6f0$4001a8c0@mycomputer> From: "John Emmas" To: References: <013e01c90679$57618c70$67c864c0@andrew> <8eu4b4dr2kqv91vdedoq6c1v2jkncnks2g@4ax.com> Subject: Re: End of support for 9x Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:41:02 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Kelly" Subject: Re: End of support for 9x > > Windows 9x doesn't even work on most modern hardware any more, due to > lack of widespread driver support. > That's been my experience too. I've been developing software for nearly 20 years. For at least 12 years I had a multi-partition setup with 4 different flavours of Windows and 2 x different Linux distros. But about 2 years ago I had to drop Windows NT and Windows 98 after my motherboard blew up and I needed to buy a new one. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Kelly" To: "Trans-Mit Support" Cc: Sent: 25 August 2008 09:28 Subject: Re: End of support for 9x Trans-Mit Support wrote: > Re:- > > Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows > > Me > > will be discontinued with the > > > next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin. > > Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA > is just out of the question. Looks like I won't be using any new versions > of > cygwyn Windows 9x doesn't even work on most modern hardware any more, due to lack of widespread driver support. -- Barry -- http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ -- 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/