--- In [email protected], Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> There are about 5 people in the world using Windows 95
> and maybe 1 person using Windows 3.x. Targeting those
> OSes is completely ridiculous.  There are, unfortunately,
> Windows 98 users still in existence.
<snip>

Believe it or not, until very recently I've been working in a project
where one really important FTP server runs in a virtual PC under
VMWare; this virtual machine runs MS-DOS as its "OS", and the FTP
server is just as stable as you will surely suspect. ;-)
Unfortunately no one dares to get rid of this installation because
there are other programs running in this virtual MS-DOS environment,
and no one has the source codes for these programs, nor does anyone
have a functional specification so that these programs could be
rewritten in a more modern environment. Nice, isn't it? But this is a
true story.

So far about targeting older systems...

Regards,
Nico

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