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Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:26:00 +0300

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:37:29 +0100
> 
> Florian Beck <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>> How is this not a concern anymore?  We didn't stop supporting
> >>> Windows 9X, did we?
> >>>    
> >> Microsoft did. Why don't we? 
> >
> > Hardware. Windows 9X is the main choice for old machines (like 64MB
> > ram). Don't take that away without need.
> 
> If they run a 15 year old trashy OS, do they really demand the latest
> and greatest Emacs? (which is a very fat application for such machines)

We still support DOS, which is even trashier, remember?

I really don't understand this urge to be unkind to users of lesser
machines.  If there was some effort required from the active
developers, I could at least begin to understand.  But there isn't
any.






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