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On Apr 21 15:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna said [in thread entitled "Windows 95 support ?"]
> > Just the setup tool has some problem, apparently. Cygwin still runs on 95, which will probably change at one point, since it's getting incredibly awkward to support it.
> 
> I've a related question: how "pleasant" must the user experience be on
> older operating systems? Specifically, my [still in ITP state] port of

Think along the lines of "it's the OSes fault, not mine", and you'll
feel better immediately.

> Sleep(40)!!
  ^^^^^^^^^

> It would also work on older OS's -- but every invocation would incur a
> 40 second delay.  Which is really *mean*.  I'm not sure I'm ready for

Wouldn't that be a 40 *milli*second delay?


Corinna

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