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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:13:36 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin without Win32
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:23:47AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: cygwin-owner<at>cygwin<dot>com On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Hmmm?
>
>> > Larry Hall wrote:
>> >
>> > > >Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users
>> > there are compared with NT and greater?
>> > >
>> > > No, not that has been reported to this list anyway.
>> >
>> > I wonder how close to an approximation of reality a simple
>> > poll/form on the  cygwin.com front page would generate?
>> >
>> > Brian
>>
>>   I wonder if running a script across the list archive to extract all the
>> cycheck output and counting the different systems that way would produce a
>> result with any meaning to it at all?
>
>Perhaps only which systems have more problems (or which systems have more
>consciencious users that actually read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>).

I guess I'll keep making the observation that any poll would be worthless
as long as people seem to be ignoring that fact and still coming up
with alternate ways of polling.

We are not dropping support for older Windows systems.

cgf

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