From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:02:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20161107150232.0b10d24f@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> 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> <83zilbgo4u.fsf@gnu.org> <20161107140228.0a60be57@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478549026 15797 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 20:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 21:03:41 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 1c3q8P-0000Fz-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:03:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3q8S-0008S7-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3q7n-0008Qq-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:02:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3q7n-0002s4-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:50321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3q7m-0002rg-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:02:34 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B91162; Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:02:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BD12DE145; Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:02:33 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 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:209259 Archived-At: On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:39:26 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > (If you buy a new computer in China it comes with Windows 10, > > though of course not necessarily a legal copy. No one would > > willingly buy a machine with Windows 98 installed. It doesn't > > even support modern hardware.) > > The argument was not for people using new machines with old OS, but > people using old machines (with accompanying old OS). Sure, but there's very little evidence that many of those are extant. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com