X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A7B10B2.7000303@bmts.com> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:19:46 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mintty doesn't run on NT4 due to lack of GetConsoleWindow References: <20090806044706.GA2009@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <416096c60908060418p70329409q751c2a3735167998@mail.gmail.com> <20090806145908.GA3130@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090806145908.GA3130@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com 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 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