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On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 12:17:28 AM UTC-5, MRO wrote:
> To: fusion
> Re: Re: 3.19b not compatible with Windows XP?
> By: fusion to cadeon on Fri Jul 08 2022 05:51 pm
> > ca> > ... now I see that archive.dll requires bcrypt.dll which isn't
> > ca> > included either.
> > ca> If we need to bail on XP I feel like we can? It doesn't seem like 
> > ca> there's a lot of love for it. 
> > 
> > i obviously don't decide what amount of effort crosses that line of "okay, 
> > we're done with xp now, you have to upgrade," but if it isn't a huge task, 
> > it's better to fix the things that keep it working as you go.. 
> > 
> > otherwise the list gets huge and it ends up being "well, i guess at this 
> > point we basically just /have/ to say it doesn't support xp" 
> > 
> > imo "because i wanna" is good enough reason to use xp (in the context of 
> > bbsing/nostalgiacomputing) 
> > 
> > *shrug*
> well windows 7 was a free upgrade for quite some time. and you can run it for free in limited mode. furthermore windows 7 can run on some low specs. like you can run it on about 500mb of memory on a 1ghz system. 
> 
> so like i said, don't be a nick andre. people should run something more secure. I don't care what firewall they claim to have it behind. 
> --- 

If they run in a VM?  Who would care.  Not like some hacker going to be able to cause much of a problem there.  If you've got nothing on
your Windows system of interest then once again who cares.  Oh, you care.  Then don't run it which you don't.
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