From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:02 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478451228 14016 195.159.176.226 (6 Nov 2016 16:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:53:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 17:53:40 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 1c3Qgg-000580-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:52:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3Qgj-0005Yr-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3Qfu-0005YX-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:52:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3Qfp-0002eY-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51461 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3Qfp-0002dR-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:52:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3QfF-0002Vs-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:51:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PF8GicpGoXNhJsrJ9g+h3bxEHfM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:209212 Archived-At: > In any case, the non-removal of support for Windows 9X was an explicit > request from Richard, an opinion which AFAIU he still held 5 years > ago: 5 years is a fairly long time. AFAIK Windows 98 was released in ... 1998 (surprise surprise), with a second edition in 1999. So 5 years ago it was 13 years old. There's a significant different between 13 years old and 18 years old, so there's a good chance that the number of users of Window98 is fallen sharply during this time. Of course, I don't know whether it has, nor whether the intersection of Windows98 users with Emacs users has fallen sharply. Stefan