qh-76773: Update misc docs mentioning obselete DOS, WinCE & Borland

serhiy-storchaka · May 10, 2022 · May 9, 2022 · May 9, 2022 · May 9, 2022 · May 9, 2022
commit 234aa3c403454d899d152caa81b267094fd6100b
diff --git a/Doc/extending/windows.rst b/Doc/extending/windows.rst
@@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ Using DLLs in Practice
 
 
 Windows Python is built in Microsoft Visual C++; using other compilers may or
-may not work (though Borland seems to).  The rest of this section is MSVC++
-specific.
+may not work.  The rest of this section is MSVC++ specific.
 
 When creating DLLs in Windows, you must pass :file:`pythonXY.lib` to the linker.
 To build two DLLs, spam and ni (which uses C functions found in spam), you could
@@ -134,4 +133,3 @@ Developer Studio will throw in a lot of import libraries that you do not really
 need, adding about 100K to your executable.  To get rid of them, use the Project
 Settings dialog, Link tab, to specify *ignore default libraries*.  Add the
 correct :file:`msvcrtxx.lib` to the list of libraries.
-
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ with running programs from the Windows command line then everything will seem
 obvious; otherwise, you might need a little more guidance.
 
 Unless you use some sort of integrated development environment, you will end up
-*typing* Windows commands into what is variously referred to as a "DOS window"
-or "Command prompt window".  Usually you can create such a window from your
+*typing* Windows commands into what is referred to as a
+"Command prompt window".  Usually you can create such a window from your
 search bar by searching for ``cmd``.  You should be able to recognize
 when you have started such a window because you will see a Windows "command
 prompt", which usually looks like this:
@@ -186,9 +186,6 @@ Embedding the Python interpreter in a Windows app can be summarized as follows:
    by the Windows ``GetProcAddress()`` routine.  Macros can make using these
    pointers transparent to any C code that calls routines in Python's C API.
 
-   Borland note: convert :file:`python{NN}.lib` to OMF format using Coff2Omf.exe
-   first.
-
    .. XXX what about static linking?
 
 2. If you use SWIG, it is easy to create a Python "extension module" that will
@@ -279,4 +276,3 @@ How do I check for a keypress without blocking?
 Use the :mod:`msvcrt` module.  This is a standard Windows-specific extension module.
 It defines a function ``kbhit()`` which checks whether a keyboard hit is
 present, and ``getch()`` which gets one character without echoing it.
-
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -1360,10 +1360,6 @@ way is to instantiate one of the following classes:
    functions in these libraries use the ``stdcall`` calling convention, and are
    assumed to return :c:type:`int` by default.
 
-   On Windows CE only the standard calling convention is used, for convenience the
-   :class:`WinDLL` and :class:`OleDLL` use the standard calling convention on this
-   platform.
-
 The Python :term:`global interpreter lock` is released before calling any
 function exported by these libraries, and reacquired afterwards.
 
@@ -1664,8 +1660,7 @@ See :ref:`ctypes-callback-functions` for examples.
 .. function:: WINFUNCTYPE(restype, *argtypes, use_errno=False, use_last_error=False)
 
    Windows only: The returned function prototype creates functions that use the
-   ``stdcall`` calling convention, except on Windows CE where
-   :func:`WINFUNCTYPE` is the same as :func:`CFUNCTYPE`.  The function will
+   ``stdcall`` calling convention.  The function will
    release the GIL during the call.  *use_errno* and *use_last_error* have the
    same meaning as above.
 

diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ option
    These option syntaxes are not supported by :mod:`optparse`, and they never
    will be.  This is deliberate: the first three are non-standard on any
    environment, and the last only makes sense if you're exclusively targeting
-   VMS, MS-DOS, and/or Windows.
+   Windows or certain legacy platforms (e.g. VMS, MS-DOS).
 
 option argument
    an argument that follows an option, is closely associated with that option,

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
    :synopsis: Operations on pathnames.
 
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/posixpath.py` (for POSIX) and
-:source:`Lib/ntpath.py` (for Windows NT).
+:source:`Lib/ntpath.py` (for Windows).
 
 .. index:: single: path; operations
 

diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
    file-like object.  Whether the name can be
    used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is
    still open, varies across platforms (it can be so used on Unix; it cannot
-   on Windows NT or later).  If *delete* is true (the default), the file is
+   on Windows).  If *delete* is true (the default), the file is
    deleted as soon as it is closed.
    The returned object is always a file-like object whose :attr:`!file`
    attribute is the underlying true file object. This file-like object can