Re: 16-bit versions of gnuplot doomed?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> But is it not sufficient to support these machines under linux?

No.  Some of the boxes we're talking about here couldn't run Linux even if
their operators' lives depended on it.  An actual need for a 16-bit DOS
version means real DOS on a 286-class or even smaller machine.  An actual
IBM PC/AT or PS/2 model 30, roughly 10 years old or older. Such boxes
won't even run the 32-bit DOS binary, like the DJGPP one which I'll
certainly prepare and package a release of.

A need for 16-bit Windows versions can arise even on a 486 box, _if_ it's
still running Win3.x, without the "Win32s" add-on installed.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.