1993-02-23 - Re: Being kind to 8086 users - was: Re: msdos perl

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305)
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UTC Datetime: 1993-02-23 03:24:15 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 19:24:15 PST

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 19:24:15 PST
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305)
Subject: Re: Being kind to 8086 users - was: Re: msdos perl
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> There's one part of the market that's still heavily populated with
> 8086 machines - portables.

c'est what?  you must mean palmtops.  laptops and notebooks
run op systems like mach, bsd, plan 9, etc. -- they're not
running on 8086s.

of course, i can see wanting to run on an 8086 if it's guaranteed 
that it can't run perl.

	peter





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