Windows 2000 support

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Tue Jun 5 15:30:29 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 15:32:05 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Dmitry Olshansky 
> <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05.06.2012 18:57, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05-06-2012 16:52, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:43 PM, mta`chrono 
>>>> <chrono at mta-international.net
>>>> <mailto:chrono at mta-international.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Drop support since even Microsoft dropped support. Even if 
>>>> druntime will
>>>> support Windows 2000, all my the programs I code will at 
>>>> least require
>>>> Windows XP.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bye,
>>>> Gor Gyolchanyan.
>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>
>> Same here, just make it official and be done with it.
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Olshansky
>
>
> So, the set of supported operating systems will be:
> 1. Windows XP +
> 2. POSIX
>
> If it was not for the damned Windows, there would be a single
> universal operating system interface for all operating systems.
>
> --
> Bye,
> Gor Gyolchanyan.


Forgetting, of course, that there are many industrial operating
systems that don't fully support POSIX, if at all.

Or that even with POSIX, the support is not the same across all
commercial UNIX systems.

I like UNIX and POSIX, but that is not the universal API that 
many think.

--
Paulo


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