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Subject: Re: End of support for 9x
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:41:02 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Kelly" <bkelly DOT ie AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: End of support for 9x
>
> Windows 9x doesn't even work on most modern hardware any more, due to
> lack of widespread driver support.
>
That's been my experience too.  I've been developing software for nearly
20 years.  For at least 12 years I had a multi-partition setup with 4
different flavours of Windows and 2 x different Linux distros.  But about
2 years ago I had to drop Windows NT and Windows 98 after my
motherboard blew up and I needed to buy a new one.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Kelly" <bkelly DOT ie AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Trans-Mit Support" <support AT transmit DOT com DOT au>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: 25 August 2008 09:28
Subject: Re: End of support for 9x


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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