On 17 Dec 14, at 15:38, rpzrpz...@gmail.com wrote: > On 12/17/2014 3:23 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 12/17/2014 12:20 PM, Sven Barth wrote: > >> On 17.12.2014 21:08, rpzrpz...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> No disrespect, but, don't you think it is time to retire your OS/2 > >>> computer? > >>> > >>> There is an operating system called Linux and its very nice and modern. > >>> > >>> You should try it. > >> > >> You do know that you are saying this on a mailing list of a compiler > >> that recently gained 16-bit MS-DOS support and regained m68k-amiga > >> support? Supporting exotic platforms is one of the strong points of FPC. > > Not to mention that our friend probably never used or even has seen an > > OS/2 system... ;-) > > > > Ralf > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > http://www.avast.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > Ralf, Such passion for obsolescence... > > What is the use case other than a hobby and pride for OS/2 support? > > Hopefully, FPC core maintainers are not distracted by the legacy support.
With all the respect to your opinions: If you want to discuss potential reasons for using various operating systems (and/or continuing support of such operating systems in FPC), I suggest that you move that discussion to fpc-other. For now, let's stick to a reminder that the whole FPC is a hobby project. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
