From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:26 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478419850 21038 195.159.176.226 (6 Nov 2016 08:10:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 08:10:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 09:10:46 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 1c3IXH-000456-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 09:10:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3IXK-0001TD-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:10:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3IXD-0001Sp-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:10:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3IXC-00025F-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:10:35 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:39266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3IX6-00020N-R6; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:10:28 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9C41607D8; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id VJVcOfRHm0RY; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8705160D27; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id PUGMoFglMYmz; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.178.162]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C8F681607D8; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:209207 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > I would argue against this. I removed the material on Windows 9x since >> > it has long since reached EOL -- 10 years, or 25% of Emacs' existance. > That is true, but we still try supporting those old systems, as they > are widespread in the 3rd world. That may have been true a decade ago, but Windows 9x is no longer a practical porting target even in the third world. For what it's worth, statcounter.com lists WinME's popularity as dropping from 0.37% of China's desktop market in March 2014 to 0.01% in August of this year, and they no longer even bother measuring its popularity in Africa. Besides, at this point it borders on technical malpractice to suggest to users that it's OK to use Windows 9x to run Emacs.