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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:39:43 +0100
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From: robert w hall <bobh AT n-cantrell DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: cygwin on 486 running NT3.51!
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 <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0309151234520 DOT 12411 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Thanks for this reply
Sorry for delay in acknowledging
(It was in my win4lin-win95 system which got corrupted!).
Bob

In message <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0309151234520 DOT 12411 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>, Igor
Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes
>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, robert w hall wrote:
>
>> Does current cygwin work
>> on a 486 (Intel DX4-75) running NT3.51?
>> Bob
>> (Sorry, broken thread)
>
>AFAIK, Cygwin should work on NT 3.51 (with, possibly, some other things
>installed, e.g. IE5), though it's not regularly tested on this OS.  As for
>using a 486, I believe I saw some packages explicitly require Pentium and
>higher in their configure flags.  You'll just have to test and see.
>Unless someone (CGF?) steps in with a statement that pre-Pentium
>architectures aren't supported by Cygwin, please report any errors you get
>to this list.  Otherwise, you're pretty much on your own.
>       Igor

-- 
robert w hall

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