[Tinymux] Support for Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Me, and NT 4.0 in TinyMUX 2.6

[William Young]

>From: "Mark A. Withers" <MWithers at cfl.rr.com>
>Reply-To: tinymux at tinymux.org
>To: tinymux at tinymux.org
>Subject: Re: [Tinymux] Support for Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Me,and NT 4.0	in 
>TinyMUX 2.6
>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:04:18 -0500
>
>On 9 Jun 2006 at 16:12, Worldgate wrote:
>
> > At 03:07 PM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
> > >Considering that this is 2006, Microsoft is ending support for
> > >98/98SE/Me in July,  and I am shy about TinyMUX being used in a setup
> > >so likely to end in tears, I am seriously thinking of not only
> > >removing support for 95, 98, 98SE, Me, and NT 4.0, but adding code
> > >which refuses to run on anything prior to Windows 2000.
> >
> > Hmm well I certainly cant tell you what to do but I would suggest that
> > if it isnt broken why fix it?  You could always do like alot of others
> > do 'Supported on Windows 2000/XP' but just mention that it 'may work
> > with win9x'.
>
>I second this. I don't see the point in having code whose sole purpose is 
>to
>refuse to run on a particular OS if it otherwise may. I /do/ see the point 
>in
>perhaps a popup dialog that, when detecting pre-Win2k Windows, it warns
>the user that TM is not supported on those OSes, so it may or may not work
>for them. That's fair.
>

Earlier this week, when I was installing a graphic arts program (the Gimp) 
onto the `98 computer at work, I noticed that they had that message of 
"It'll probably work on Win 9x, but we're not making any promises".  Quite 
frankly, I thought that Microsoft had ended support for `98 a few months 
ago.

So yes, I third the notion. Seems about as odd as making a type of coffee 
that can't be poured in a regular cup (with that inability being on purpose) 
after a new "21st Century Coffee Cup" has been released.