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On Apr  1 07:07, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 31 March 2011 21:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Is anybody here still using Cygwin on Windows NT4 on a daily basis?  I'm
> > asking because we're planning to drop NT4 support entirely and I would
> > like to know if there are lots of people who would be very sad if that
> > happens.
> 
> FWIW, NT4 support in mintty has been broken since version 0.6.1 a year
> ago, and nobody reported it until Corinna stumbled across it in NT4
> testing a few days ago.
> 
> Microsoft stopped supporting NT4 in 2004.

And there's still the legacy 1.5 release which obviously will continue
to run on NT4.


Corinna

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