X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/1ec39db1a3abacdffebec535b86b4475301470cf..97f01ee06832585fd69ca71b96089e2ce4647320:/doc/faq.but diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 58e6a5b5..ded2d196 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -208,15 +208,22 @@ seems to be working so far. \S{faq-ports-general}{Question} What ports of PuTTY exist? Currently, release versions of PuTTY tools only run on full Win32 -systems and Unix. \q{Win32} includes Windows 95, 98, and ME, and it -includes Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Vista. +systems and Unix. \q{\i{Win32}} includes versions of Windows from +Windows 95 onwards (as opposed to the 16-bit Windows 3.1; see +\k{faq-win31}), up to and including Windows 7; and we know of no +reason why PuTTY should not continue to work on future versions +of Windows. + +The Windows executables we provide are for the 32-bit \q{\i{x86}} +processor architecture, but they should work fine on 64-bit +processors that are backward-compatible with that architecture. +(We used to also provide executables for Windows for the Alpha +processor, but stopped after 0.58 due to lack of interest.) In the development code, partial ports to the Mac OSes exist (see \k{faq-mac-port}). -Currently PuTTY does \e{not} run on Windows CE (see \k{faq-wince}), -and it does not quite run on the Win32s environment under Windows -3.1 (see \k{faq-win31}). +Currently PuTTY does \e{not} run on Windows CE (see \k{faq-wince}). We do not have release-quality ports for any other systems at the present time. If anyone told you we had an EPOC port, or an iPaq port,