[Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

[Ryan Gonzalez]

win16 doesn't seem to have important stuff:

https://github.com/python/cpython/search?utf8=✓&q="win16"

On January 28, 2016 8:57:20 AM CST, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
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>Check out and cd into Python trunk.
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>% grep -Ri win16 * | wc
>      10      66     625
>
>% grep -Ri nextstep | wc
>      23     119    1328
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>% grep -Ri rhapsody * | wc
>      47     269    3390
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>% grep -Ri msdos * | wc
>      56     381    3895
>  % grep -Ri ms-dos * | wc
>      20     180    1425
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>win16!  *laughs* *wipes tear from eye*
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>It's currently 2016.  Perhaps it's time to remove all vestiges of these
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>unsupported operating systems nobody's cared about since a year that 
>started with a '1'?
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>
>//arry/
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>p.s. I suspect some of the uses of "rhapsody" are actually live code 
>used for OS X.  So this isn't necessarily dead code, some of it is 
>merely long-out-of-date comments.
>
>p.p.s. At least there were no references to "taligent", "copland", or 
>"gershwin"...!
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