When did he state that?
For the Bitcoin 0.1.0 release notes:
Operating Systems
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Windows NT/2000/XP (and probably Vista)
Vista hasn't been tested yet. All the libraries used are cross-platform, so
there's nothing preventing future Linux and Mac builds.
Compilers Supported
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MinGW GCC (v3.4.5)
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP6
About the article, which I don't remember the newspaper it was on, what I can remember:
- He wasn't asking for anything (such as recover his keys or anything Craig Wright alike)
- He said to be done with Bitcoin
- He said to had told his wife about it just shortly before the article
- He said that after the hardware incident he published here a post about the importance of keep a backup of your keys
Let's see if someone has it, as it is either vanished from internet or really hard to find.