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Re: NT4?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:48:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: NT4?
- References: <20110331203416.GB2606@calimero.vinschen.de> <AANLkTi=fKt8DnrkLkU5CiaBy83z_eOiwQWa8VWwvgRy5@mail.gmail.com> <4E106633.60804@dronecode.org.uk>
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On Jul 3 13:53, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 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.
>
> fwiw, I thought that I might have broken XWin on NT4 recently.
>
> On checking, I discovered that XWin has been broken on NT4 without anyone
> complaining since at least 1.6.3-1, released 2009-09-06. The
> VerSetConditionMask() API we use to check we aren't running on Windows 2000
> isn't available on NT4. :-). Also it looks like multiwindow mode has probably
> not worked correctly for longer.
>
> > Microsoft stopped supporting NT4 in 2004.
And Cygwin stops support with 1.7.10. Rest in peace, NT4.
Corinna
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