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Thu Jan 28 10:40:48 EST 2016 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-January/142968.html

On 2016-01-28 15:57, Larry Hastings wrote:
> 
> 
> Check out and cd into Python trunk.
> 
> % grep -Ri win16 * | wc
>      10      66     625
> 
> % grep -Ri nextstep | wc
>      23     119    1328
> 
> % grep -Ri rhapsody * | wc
>      47     269    3390
> 
> % grep -Ri msdos * | wc
>      56     381    3895
>  % grep -Ri ms-dos * | wc
>      20     180    1425
> 
> 
> win16!  *laughs* *wipes tear from eye*
> 
> It's currently 2016.  Perhaps it's time to remove all vestiges of these
> unsupported operating systems nobody's cared about since a year that
> started with a '1'?

The platform module has more hilarious comments:

Still needed:
* more support for WinCE
* support for MS-DOS (PythonDX ?)
* support for Amiga and other still unsupported platforms running Python

Christian

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