Vincent Snijders wrote:
2011/1/22 Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]>:
I've installed the binary of FPC 2.4.2 on Windows 2000 and Windows NT4
without problems. I've done an svn export of Lazarus and this builds and
runs fine on W2K, but on NT I get
I think we should discontinue the support for Windows NT4.
Microsoft doesn't support Windows 2000 anymore either, and I cannot
download it from msdn either, so testing on Windows 2000 is getter
harder too.
I can't argue with that but if I could make a couple of suggestions:
i) If NT4 is phased out it might be worth retaining W2K for an extended
period, since I think that this is the final version that doesn't demand
activation. I suspect that there is a reasonable population of users who
favour it for that reason, but this might change if ReactOS matures.
ii) I can't produce figures, but I think that a significant number of
industrial (rack-mounted) computers were sold with one or other of those
OSes and in a high proportion of cases those will not have been upgraded.
If this turns out to be a tools issue it might be worth fixing, or at
least documenting as an understood problem. Or at the very least could
somebody point me at how to get a useful indication of what's actually
happening.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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