From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:54:24 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <05ba947a-970a-178c-8036-bcdf84485384@cs.ucla.edu> References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360o4monq.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaw4gq0j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1iba6od.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ins2jq88.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478469308 31347 195.159.176.226 (6 Nov 2016 21:55:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 21:55:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 22:55:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3VOh-0004X1-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:54:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3VOk-0006u9-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3VOd-0006ts-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3VOd-0005WF-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:38524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3VOZ-0005QI-B6; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:54:31 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C4C16075E; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:54:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 9fsCfR9e1VuO; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:54:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDFD160D27; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:54:29 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id a0iTUjzgjWtZ; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:54:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.178.162]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CB5516075E; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:54:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209227 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Windows/ME was never popular, even when it was released As I understand it, that "WinME" label is a catchall that includes the=20 MS-Windows 9x line, and "0.01%" is so small that I doubt whether it is=20 statistically significant. In practice then 9x line has transitioned from= =20 unsupported (ten years ago) to on-its-way-out (five years ago) to dead (n= ow,=20 almost everywhere), and any old decisions that assumed 9x's viability are= now=20 obsolete. In GNU projects, we typically stop worrying about an underlying platform = when=20 its original supplier stops supporting it. For example, Emacs no longer w= orries=20 about IRIX because SGI stopped supporting IRIX in 2013. Although MS-Windo= ws 9x=20 is special partly because it was so popular long ago, Emacs need not supp= ort 9x=20 indefinitely, and Emacs's documentation should not give Emacs users the=20 incorrect impression that 9x is still a live platform.