From: timradde@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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