From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:53:25 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <05ba947a-970a-178c-8036-bcdf84485384@cs.ucla.edu> <87inrzz4y0.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478613348 10807 195.159.176.226 (8 Nov 2016 13:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 08 14:55:43 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 1c46ru-0000gN-7I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 14:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46rx-0006Li-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46775) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46r6-0006K4-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:54:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46r5-0003fz-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46q6-0002eh-Os; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:53:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c46q5-0002Ns-Ov; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:53:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <87inrzz4y0.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:209283 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > What we do know is that we get very few bug reports for Windows 98/95. That suggests we don't have many users on those systems. We could put in code in the next release to display a message, "If you use GNU Emacs on Windows 95 or Windows 98, please send email to . We are thinking of deleting the support for those systems in a future Emacs version." > The only thing that I could think of further to get more information > would be to check the download logs; does ftp.gnu.org store user agent > strings or equivalent. This would at least give us some evidence about > Windows 9x -- also Windows XP. That is a good idea. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.