Another app drops support for Win9x
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
If more than 3 years without any updates to Windoze 98
isn't a strong enough clue that it is a dead platform,
the rate at which app builders are shedding 9x support
should certainly be a strong indicator.
You may have heard about WINE
which allows for running Windoze-compatible apps under Linux
(and other Unix-like OSes).
Cygwin is kinda the flip side of that; it is a compatibility layer
that allows Unix apps to be recompiled for the Windoze platform.[1]
cache
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
The most recent release of Cygwin has dropped support for Win9x.
From now on, when folks port apps via the current version of Cygwin,
those apps will not be 9x-compatible.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/24/228237#30549280
...and this is an amusing excercise:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/24/228237#30549552
[1] Of course, in order to do that, you must have the source code for that app.
Not coincidently, the majority of the Linux-compatible ecosystem
is Open Source Software (unlike the buy-the-binary-only meme
that is typical of the Windoze ecosystem).
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