Update docs.

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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Parts of the implementation also comply with the Open Group's
 Single Unix specification for compatibility with major Unix

 implementations and Linux.

 

-Pthreads-win32 is free software, distributed under the GNU Library

+Pthreads-win32 is free software, distributed under the GNU Lesser

 General Public License (LGPL).

 

 Please see the 'Acknowledgements' section at the end of this

@@ -29,13 +29,14 @@ Changes since the last snapshot
 

 platform dependence

 -------------------

-As Win9x doesn't provide one, the library now contains

-it's own InterlockedCompareExchange() routine. It is used to

-implement spinlocks and barriers, and also in mutexes.

+As Win95 doesn't provide one, the library now contains

+it's own InterlockedCompareExchange() routine, which is used

+whenever Windows doesn't provide it. InterlockedCompareExchange()

+is used to implement spinlocks and barriers, and also in mutexes.

 This routine relies on the CMPXCHG machine instruction which

-is only available in i486 or above CPUs. This library

-(from snapshot 20010712 onwards) therefore no longer runs on

-i386 platforms.

+is not available on i386 CPUs. This library (from snapshot

+20010712 onwards) is therefore no longer supported on i386

+processor platforms.

 

 rwlocks

 -------

@@ -55,10 +56,10 @@ pthread_mutex_lock;
 

 The behaviour of pthread_mutex_trylock in relation to

 recursive mutexes was inconsistent with commercial implementations.

-Trylock would return EBUSY if the lock was owned already

-regardless of mutex type. Trylock now increments the recursion

-count and returns 0 for RECURSIVE mutexes, and will now return

-EDEADLCK instead of EBUSY for ERRORCHECK mutexes. This is

+Trylock would return EBUSY if the lock was owned already by the

+calling thread regardless of mutex type. Trylock now increments the

+recursion count and returns 0 for RECURSIVE mutexes, and will

+return EDEADLK rather than EBUSY for ERRORCHECK mutexes. This is

 consistent with Solaris.

 - Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@gmx.net>