[Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

[Sven Barth]

On 03.08.2012 11:33, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:43:55AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>> Ehmm.. I'm trying to contain myself, but WHY does Lazarus 1 and 1+ even
>>> support Win9x/ME anymore?
>>
>> Because not everybody feels the need to "fix" what isn't broken.
>
> That is a very strange argument when asking for a NEW version of a development
> toolchain :_)
>
>> Why must we always pay the Microsoft-tax simply because Microsoft thinks
>> there latest crapware is better that the previous one - and we all know
>> that isn't always true (Vista anyone?).
>
> But that doesn't apply to the win9x set. IMHO the only good reason to run
> win9x is having significantly less than 512MB memory.
>
> win2000 could run decently with 192MB, but is already deprecated (and was
> always expensive).  XP could run with 256MB, but barely, and the
> requirements due to updates have increased over time.  384MB might be
> doable, but I haven't tried in ages.

If I'd not run Linux on such a machine I'd prefer to use ReactOS (even 
if it would crash every now and then) before going near a 9x. :)

Regards,
Sven