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From: Barry Kelly <bkelly DOT ie AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: End of support for 9x
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:31 +0100
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Trans-Mit Support wrote:

> Re:-
> > Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me 
> > will be discontinued with the >
> > next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin.
> 
> Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA
> is just out of the question. Looks like I won't be using any new versions of 
> cygwyn

Windows 9x doesn't even work on most modern hardware any more, due to
lack of widespread driver support.

-- Barry

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