if we're going back that far, is anyone out there still running CP/M or Phimon, or using switches to toggle in machine code one byte at a time? Or worrying about the behavior of thunks in Algol and side effects of call by name, or perhaps whether all of the filaments in the tubes in the 64-bit accumulator are ok?
:D Grant NQ5T On May 28, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Bill Blomgren" <[email protected]> wrote: > In the commercial world, 98 went by the wayside back when MS dropped support > for it... which was somewhere in the 2000's as I remember. (I never > supported 98.. I was only in the server world there.) > > Considering the age of the computers that -can- run 98 these days, they are > .. well... OLD. I have 1 down in Charlotte that I didn't bump to XP only > because I had a film scanner from Polaroid (4000 pixels per inch) that did an > incredible job.. but had software that ONLY ran on 98. 4 weeks after I > bought that puppy ($1500 then) - Polaroid went belly up. So there have been > NO updates for the drivers and guts of the scanning software. <sigh> > > But I don't know anyone still running 98 or ME at this point. None. LOTS of > people on Linux, Mac, and Windows XP and 7. A few running Vista.. I don't > know of anyone running 8 at this point. (Uptake has been 1/2 the dismal Vista > uptake, which tells you something...) > > Moving up to the next generation of Compiler would be a good thing in my > eyes, but a lot of software doesn't need 64 bit versions.. (I suspect your > utilities probably are some of those...) - the WOW layer handles thunking > nicely so that 32 bit applications will run happily on 64 bit OS's.. Compile > for 32 bit in all cases because the last version that had 16 bit support was > XP as I remember..... > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Dievendorff" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:23 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] How many Windows users are using Windows 98 SE? > > >> I've been building the various Elecraft utilities (K3 Utility, KX3 Utility, >> P3 Utility, KPA Utility, XG3 Utility, K144XV Utility and XG3 Utility) with a >> 2005-era compiler, because that's the most recent version of the Microsoft >> Visual Studio C++ compiler that generates executables that will run on >> Windows 98 SE. >> >> >> I'd like to move to a more modern compiler, but the resulting code they >> generate will run only on Windows XP and later. That is, Windows XP, >> Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. >> >> >> >> Would you be inconvenienced by this change? I'm hoping there aren't many. >> >> >> >> Please let me know if you need the Windows versions of the Elecraft >> Utilities to run on Windows OS prior to Windows XP, and what OS you have. >> >> >> >> Thanks & 73 de Dick, K6KR >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
