Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 13:38:36 EST 2016

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Hello,

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:29:41 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> We slowly remove old platforms, but only if the code specific to these
> old platforms is annoying to maintain. For example, I wrote the
> change:
> 
> https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a1605d2508af
> """
> Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS
> 
> Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port
> of GCC).
> 
> Today is a sad day. Good bye MS-DOS, good bye my friend :'-(
> """
> => http://bugs.python.org/issue22591

Well, MicroPython is ready to take the baton - FreeDOS (that's how they
call MS-DOS now) support was added recently:
https://github.com/micropython/micropython/commit/64a909ef5113925adef19f275f62473de8ee68c5

> 
> Victor
> 

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