[Elecraft] How many Windows users are using Windows 98 SE?

[Bill Blomgren]

In the commercial world, 98 went by the wayside back when MS dropped support 
for it... which was somewhere in the 2000's as I remember.  (I never 
supported 98.. I was only in the server world there.)

Considering the age of the computers that -can- run 98 these days, they are 
.. well... OLD.  I have 1 down in Charlotte that I didn't bump to XP only 
because I had a film scanner from Polaroid (4000 pixels per inch) that did 
an incredible job.. but had software that ONLY ran on 98.  4 weeks after I 
bought that puppy ($1500 then) - Polaroid went belly up.  So there have been 
NO updates for the drivers and guts of the scanning software.  <sigh>

But I don't know anyone still running 98 or ME at this point.  None.  LOTS 
of people on Linux, Mac, and Windows XP and 7.  A few running Vista.. I 
don't know of anyone running 8 at this point. (Uptake has been 1/2 the 
dismal Vista uptake, which tells you something...)

Moving up to the next generation of Compiler would be a good thing in my 
eyes, but a lot of software doesn't need 64 bit versions.. (I suspect your 
utilities probably are some of those...) - the WOW layer handles thunking 
nicely so that 32 bit applications will run happily on 64 bit OS's.. Compile 
for 32 bit in all cases because the last version that had 16 bit support was 
XP as I remember.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Dievendorff" <dieven at comcast.net>
To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:23 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] How many Windows users are using Windows 98 SE?


> I've been building the various Elecraft utilities (K3 Utility, KX3 
> Utility,
> P3 Utility, KPA Utility, XG3 Utility, K144XV Utility and XG3 Utility) with 
> a
> 2005-era compiler, because that's the most recent version of the Microsoft
> Visual Studio C++ compiler that generates executables that will run on
> Windows 98 SE.
>
>
> I'd like to move to a more modern compiler, but the resulting code they
> generate will run only on Windows XP and later.  That is, Windows XP,
> Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
>
>
>
> Would you be inconvenienced by this change?  I'm hoping there aren't many.
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you need the Windows versions of the Elecraft
> Utilities to run on Windows OS prior to Windows XP, and what OS you have.
>
>
>
> Thanks & 73 de Dick, K6KR
>
>
>
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