Remove references to "Win32" and "32-bit Windows".

They were there mainly to distinguish from 16-bit Windows, which hasn't
been a thing since before a noticeable fraction of the userbase were
born, probably. These days the obvious comparison is with 64-bit
Windows.

Also tweak some wording to reflect that official PuTTY executables are
not necessarily 32-bit any more, and add some XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE
in the same vein.

diff --git a/doc/blurb.but b/doc/blurb.but
index 4e3ccf71869fc9d5db5ec6bb7a8a6a4f5c047069..227300f461bf0f64f9408b15b5973fcf7360c717 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/blurb.but
+++ b/doc/blurb.but
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ page</a>.</p>}
 \cfg{winhelp-filename}{putty.hlp}
 \cfg{info-filename}{putty.info}
 
-PuTTY is a free (MIT-licensed) Win32 Telnet and SSH client. This
+PuTTY is a free (MIT-licensed) Windows Telnet and SSH client. This
 manual documents PuTTY, and its companion utilities PSCP, PSFTP,
 Plink, Pageant and PuTTYgen.
 

diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but
index 040d61e70acd4ce33aef6825afa5b957dc50a83f..2ad5f18096dceeb8faf4239503461d39a84c11c8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/faq.but
+++ b/doc/faq.but
@@ -213,16 +213,24 @@ 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{\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.
+Currently, release versions of PuTTY tools only run on Windows
+systems and Unix.
+
+PuTTY runs on versions of Windows from Windows 95 onwards (but not
+the 16-bit Windows 3.1; see \k{faq-win31}), up to and including
+Windows 10; and we know of no reason why PuTTY should not continue
+to work on future versions of Windows.
+\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: should say something about w32old for
+pre-XP Windows}
+
+The 32-bit Windows executables we provide for the \q{\i{x86}}
+processor architecture should also work fine on 64-bit processors
+that are backward-compatible with that architecture.
+\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: The 64-bit executables will only
+work on 64-bit versions of Windows. They will run somewhat faster
+than 32-bit executables would on the same processor, but will
+consume slightly more memory.}
+
 (We used to also provide executables for Windows for the Alpha
 processor, but stopped after 0.58 due to lack of interest.)
 
@@ -1045,7 +1053,8 @@ is triggered by PuTTY 0.58. This was fixed in 0.59. The
 \W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/xp-wont-run}{\q{xp-wont-run}}
 entry in PuTTY's wishlist has more details.
 
-\S{faq-system32}{Question} When I put PuTTY in
+\S{faq-system32}{Question} When I put
+\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE 32-bit} PuTTY in
 \cw{C:\\WINDOWS\\\i{SYSTEM32}} on my \i{64-bit Windows} system,
 \i{\q{Duplicate Session}} doesn't work.
 
@@ -1053,7 +1062,7 @@ The short answer is not to put the PuTTY executables in that location.
 
 On 64-bit systems, \cw{C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32} is intended to contain
 only 64-bit binaries; Windows' 32-bit binaries live in
-\cw{C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSWOW64}. When a 32-bit program such as PuTTY runs
+\cw{C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSWOW64}. When a 32-bit PuTTY executable runs
 on a 64-bit system, it cannot by default see the \q{real}
 \cw{C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32} at all, because the
 \W{http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187(v=vs.85).aspx}{File

diff --git a/doc/intro.but b/doc/intro.but
index f4efa08b43c8d44fcd5ab85505dbfe8bb71168d6..5d4c3f7659c12aebe7aa479ac3b33fbd00a9dacf 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/intro.but
+++ b/doc/intro.but
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \C{intro} Introduction to PuTTY
 
-PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for 32-bit Windows
+PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for Windows
 systems.
 
 \H{you-what} What are SSH, Telnet and Rlogin?