Re: 16-bit versions of gnuplot doomed?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 01:03 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> The new files steps2d.[ch] currently contain copies of the
> relevant parts of  graphics.[ch], but those may be replaced by
> #include'ing graphics.c if I  put even more #ifdef's into the latter.

That sounds ugly.  If it must be split, I hope we can make it a 
clean split.

> I will leave the CVS version free of these complications for now, until
> the following question is settled: Is support for 16-bit machines
> (think: old lab PCs, "poor pupils", under-developed countries...)
> important enough to warrant changes as deep as these before the release?

The goal of supporting old (cheap) machines is a laudable one.
But is it not sufficient to support these machines under linux?
It sounds like the problems you found are more an issue of the
inadequacies of Win3.1 than of the hardware per se.

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