OT: Re: Programming in standard c

Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
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On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:11:28 +0100, jacob navia wrote:

And Win98 on a 486?
lcc-win runs perfectly in that environment. The debugger however, has problems, probably because of bugs in Win98. By the way those
systems are no longer supported by Microsoft. I do not support
them either.

MS has a reason to not support Win98: by not supporting it, they encourage
people to spend money buying newer versions, thus increasing the profits.

By contrast, unless you have some compelling reason to use features
specific to later versions of Windows, there's no reason for you to not
support such a configuration.

Or, put differently, by sticking with the maximally usable set of Windows
functionality, you gain the ability to market to anyone who has need to
use such a system and likely cannot find a competing compiler that will
work for them. Even if it's a small market, you could be the most
significant player in it, unless there is some compelling benefit to using
the new functionality which simply isn't available on such machines.

You are right, but I have a limited budget.
Supporting win98 needs a system where I can test it, a machine with that
system, time to set it up, time to debug, etc.

I tried last year to setup a system with a virtual machine but the installation of windows 98 needs a DOS disquette, and I do not have a
floppy any more... It is quite a lot of work really...

--
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32
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