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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:29:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems)
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One wouldn't have to suffer much in performance...
see http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00087.html. 

Dynamic library linking is relatively cheap -- cheaper if the
user has the option to pre-install the lib for their OS-flavor.


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Just a datapoint. WinXP does *not* run all the programs that Win9x does.
>
>There are ways around it, but some of the old DOS stuff interacts much
>better with 9x, especially those that need to manipulate the video
>framebuffer directly.  I'm not saying that Cygwin programs do that, but
>this is one of the reasons to keep 9x around, and I, for one, do use
>Cygwin on my old 9x machine.  And I would like to see the new features in
>that Cygwin installation (the biggest problem, of course, isn't Cygwin
>features per se, but packages -- the newly built ones require newer Cygwin
>versions).
>
>Again, IMO, it would be ok to make Win9x functionality slower, external to
>the Cygwin DLL, etc, etc, but I don't think dropping it altogether is a
>good idea.
>	Igor
>  
>

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