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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message 
news:200504301439 DOT j3UEdjtA015222 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com...
>
>> Just one marketing observation: the Zip picker selects by default
>> the ancient Windows 95, which gives the probably undesired
>> impression that DJGPP is close to obsoletion. But I guess that is
>> still not the case, right?
>
> Good catch.  I moved the default to 2k/XP.  The default reflects the
> most popular, not the most desired, and XP wins with 61% of the
> submittals:
>
>      1 os=dosemu
>      2 os=win3x
>      3 os=winNT
>     13 os=unix
>     19 os=winME
>     34 os=dos
>     35 os=win98
>     65 os=win95
>    269 os=winXP

Thanks for the statistics. I would have bet
that XP is the most popular "DOS" around.
One simply cannot beat the combination of
a console window doing DJGPP in combination
with all the amenities of a modern OS - unless
DOS specific features and compatibility are
desired.

In my case it is just number crunching and
my GUI is called "Courier New". If I wanted
to wait for MingW to get their GCC 4.0 ready,
I'd have to wait forever. Therefore - applause
again to the DJGPP team!