Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > I would argue against this. I removed the material on Windows 9x since
> > > it has long since reached EOL -- 10 years, or 25% of Emacs' existance.
> That is true, but we still try supporting those old systems, as they
> are widespread in the 3rd world.

That may have been true a decade ago, but Windows 9x is no longer a practical 
porting target even in the third world. For what it's worth, statcounter.com 
lists WinME's popularity as dropping from 0.37% of China's desktop market in 
March 2014 to 0.01% in August of this year, and they no longer even bother 
measuring its popularity in Africa.

Besides, at this point it borders on technical malpractice to suggest to users 
that it's OK to use Windows 9x to run Emacs.