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From: ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch)
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Subject: gs.exe in Ghostscript distribution
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Date: 12 Dec 89 06:31:16 GMT
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Greetings!

Beta testing of release 1.4 is going well.  I would like to take a
poll on the subject of what form of PC executable I should include in
the next release.  The two relevant options are:

	1) Run on any PC, vs. run on V20/80186/80286/80386 only, vs.
run on 80386 only.

	2) Include debugging code (runs noticeably slower) vs. not.

My current inclination is to build for V20/80186/80286/80386 (i.e.,
won't run on an 8088 or 8086, but runs noticeably faster on the other
processors), and to not include debugging code.  If anyone out there
would prefer a different choice, please let me know real soon.

I'm not planning to include a Unix or VMS executable, because there
is so much variation between different systems.

L. Peter Deutsch			ghost@aladdin.com
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