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* Does anyone have access to a Windows 9X system?
@ 2013-11-23 12:06 Eli Zaretskii
  2013-11-23 12:38 ` Dani Moncayo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2013-11-23 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

If someone here has access to a Windows 9X system, and can either
compile C programs with MinGW on that system, or compile them on some
other system and then carry to and run the binaries on 9X -- please
contact me off-list.  I need to test something on Windows 9X that
affects changes I developed for Emacs on Windows.

Thanks in advance.



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* Re: Does anyone have access to a Windows 9X system?
  2013-11-23 12:06 Does anyone have access to a Windows 9X system? Eli Zaretskii
@ 2013-11-23 12:38 ` Dani Moncayo
  2013-11-23 13:50   ` Tom
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dani Moncayo @ 2013-11-23 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Emacs development discussions

> If someone here has access to a Windows 9X system, and can either
> compile C programs with MinGW on that system, or compile them on some
> other system and then carry to and run the binaries on 9X -- please
> contact me off-list.  I need to test something on Windows 9X that
> affects changes I developed for Emacs on Windows.

FWIW: I don't have any Windows 9X anymore, but if I were you, I'll
install virtualbox [1] (it is free software), and create virtual
machines for whatever operating systems I wanted to test things on.

HTH

-- 
Dani Moncayo

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/



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* Re: Does anyone have access to a Windows 9X system?
  2013-11-23 12:38 ` Dani Moncayo
@ 2013-11-23 13:50   ` Tom
  2013-11-24 12:40     ` Dani Moncayo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tom @ 2013-11-23 13:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> FWIW: I don't have any Windows 9X anymore, but if I were you, I'll
> install virtualbox [1] (it is free software), and create virtual
> machines for whatever operating systems I wanted to test things on.
> 

Do you need a Windows license to run it? From a license standpoint
it's strange if one can run a Windows instance without owning any
copy of Windows.






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* Re: Does anyone have access to a Windows 9X system?
  2013-11-23 13:50   ` Tom
@ 2013-11-24 12:40     ` Dani Moncayo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dani Moncayo @ 2013-11-24 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom; +Cc: Emacs development discussions

>> FWIW: I don't have any Windows 9X anymore, but if I were you, I'll
>> install virtualbox [1] (it is free software), and create virtual
>> machines for whatever operating systems I wanted to test things on.
>>
>
> Do you need a Windows license to run it?

It depends on what you mean by "it".  You don't need any windows
license for "using" VirtualBox (i.e. install it and create virtual
machines), but if you are going to install a Windows OS in some
machine (whether virtual or real), you need the corresponding license
(if you don't want to break the law...).

> From a license standpoint
> it's strange if one can run a Windows instance without owning any
> copy of Windows.

You can't.  See above.


-- 
Dani Moncayo



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