On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:53:07PM +0100, 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. > That would explain why I've never been able to get much of anything modern running on my NT4 system. This news sucks because it's the fastest-booting Windows system I have, despite running on a P2 with speed and RAM laughable by today's standards. I never complained because I never bothered to check what exactly was breaking.
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