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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> When we removed support for a lot of old systems 3 years ago MSDOS was
>> on the list of systems to be removed, nobody claimed to still use
>> Emacs on that platform.
>> Since then, there was a single user that said that he still used it.
>
> MS-DOS nowadays is a pretty special niche, so I'm not surprised we don't
> hear from them much here.

At what point can we say that this pretty special niche is served well
enough by emacs-2X.Y, so that we don't need to support it in new releases?