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Subject: RE: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:35:01 -0500
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From: "Terry Dabbs" <tdabbs AT staktek DOT com>
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I have an application that is used in a manufacturing environment that
runs only on '95 and '98. Our IT department thought, as you do, that "it
should always be possible to run every Win98/ME binary on XP", in spite
of the fact that the company that wrote the application says it is not
possible. Turns out, that it is not *always* possible. 
It will never be upgraded to a newer operating system, as they simply
have no one that is buying the app, and we have not found anything that
works better for the application. Since I do other things with cywin, I
would need multiple, different, installations on my desktop. What fun
that would be....
So, its not a matter of being too cheap, its just being stuck. 
If cygwin does drop the support for 9x, it would be a hassle, but not
fatal, if 1.5.x were easily findable to reinstall when needed.

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems)

Terry Dabbs wrote:

> No!
> 
> I am supporting applications requiring cygwin on '95 and '98 that are 
> not going away anytime soon.

I have not seen any Win98/ME PC since about 5 years, we're using NT all
over the place.  As I started to work in this business NT4 was current,
then W2K came up, now every new box is delivered with XP, all NT based
systems.  I cannot imagine why someone with a PC not older than 5 years
doesn't want to spend 100$ to buy an XP license.  It should always be
possible to run every Win98/ME binary on XP.  I was able to run some old
PC Games on XP which I couldn't run for about 5 years because the lack
of Win98 in my location.  The XP system supports running those old
binaries.  And if you really need Cygwin for Win98, you may use 1.5.x
forever.  As I have heard, there are still people out there who are
running NT4 Server, for about ten years now, using Cygwin B20 since
1999;)  It is fitting their needs, so why should they upgrade?


Gerrit
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