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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:13:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pom8bn7q.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Besides, at this point it borders on technical malpractice to suggest
>> to users that it's OK to use Windows 9x to run Emacs.
>
> How can this be a malpractice, technical or otherwise?

Windows 9X is a virus magnet and reservoir. This is bad for the user of
that machine and for everyone else on the 'net. That's the technical
part. The moral part needs not to be mentioned on this list.

I wholeheartedly agree with Paul on his response.




  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-06 16:13 UTC|newest]

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     [not found]   ` <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk>
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     [not found]         ` <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org>
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2016-11-05  8:16             ` Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06  3:43                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06  8:10                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13                       ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-11-06 16:43                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:16                               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53                                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51                       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50                       ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42                         ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43                         ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15                           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 15:26                           ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52                               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50                                   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19                                       ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09  7:00                                 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26                                 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 16:34                           ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02                               ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54                                   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02                                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22                                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:27                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08  3:48                                           ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49                           ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34                               ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50                   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06  4:13                 ` Noam Postavsky

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