Re: isearch multiple buffers

[David Kastrup]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/26/07, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> So yes, the fact that the DOS code is present has an impact on
>> everyone that does work on emacs. As long as there are users for that
>> code this is fine, but there's no evidence that there are such users.
>
> I have no opinion on this discussion, but with respect to the point
> above, it is not inconceivable to think that ports for old
> architectures could be still in use in less developed countries, where
> upgrading to the new-and-shiny-processor-do-jour is often
> impractical... That reason has been given many times to maintain the
> support for Windows 95/98/Me, and does not seem too far-fetched to
> extend that to MS-DOS.

But how many of those people will be able to use a bleeding-edge
Emacs?  The memory requirements would appear prohibitive if you have a
platform for which nothing but MSDOS seems reasonable.

-- 
David Kastrup