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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> (*) Is anybody here actually still using NT4?
>
>Since support for 9x is ending in 1.7, shouldn't NT4 support also end?

The decision to stop supporting 9x was mainly due to the desire to use
the more advanced API which is not availalbe on the MS-DOS based
versions of Windows.  NT4 has enough functionality that I don't see any
reason to stop supporting it quite yet.

cgf

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