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bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10 |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:00:08 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Cc: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@inmotica-integral.es>, cpardo@imayhem.com,
> 38023@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:25:15 +0100
>
> > I'm admittedly splitting hair, but I think this is slightly better:
> >
> > Emacs @value{EMACSVER} is known to run on all versions of Windows 9X
> > from Windows 98 onward, and all versions of the NT family starting
> > from NT 4.0.
>
> Personally, I know very little about Microsoft Windows. Only by
> reading this list have I recently learned that Windows 10 (or 8 or
> whatever) is part of the "NT family" of Windows. And only two minutes
> ago I checked Wikipedia and learned that Windows XP is also part of
> that same family.
Well, that FAQ is for users of MS-Windows...
> I would guess that some less tech-savvy users than me (you would
> perhaps think there are none, but there are!) might be confused by the
> above, and not immediately realize that the "NT family" includes also
> all the recent versions of Windows.
>
> So perhaps we should keep "the latest version" or something like that.
How about this:
Emacs @value{EMACSVER} is known to run on all versions of Windows 9X
from Windows 98 onward, and all versions of the NT family starting
from NT 4.0; this includes all the modern versions from Windows XP
and on.
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Cecilio Pardo, 2019/11/01
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/01
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Cecilio Pardo, 2019/11/01
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/02
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Stefan Kangas, 2019/11/07
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Stefan Kangas, 2019/11/08
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Stefan Kangas, 2019/11/08
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Tomas Nordin, 2019/11/16
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, martin rudalics, 2019/11/16
- bug#38023: Update win32 faq: emacs works on windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/16