Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!resam!andrew From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: TP 6.0 Message-ID: <1990Nov23.101352.6558@resam.dk> Date: 23 Nov 90 10:13:52 GMT References: <7341@hub.ucsb.edu> Organization: RESAM Project Office, SAS, CPHML-V Lines: 28 In <7341@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600sirt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mike O'Brien) writes: >From article , by freewill@nstar.UUCP (Bill Williston): >> I am considering upgrading to TP 6.0 from TP 3.0. Does 6.0 require a hard >> disk? Does TP 6.0 have 80386- specific features? Thanks in advance... >No, it does not require a hard disk. However, you cannot use the >on-line help without it. >TP6 has some 286 specific features, such as 286 code generation and >the TPCX compiler, which needs a 286. I don't think there are any >386 specific features. I think Bill's question was if he was able to run TP6.0 on his PC, which probably is not a 386 and maybe even not a 286 - I think that is so because of the missing harddisk - no offence :-) And yes Bill TP6.0 run on most 80x86 and 8088 IBM compatible PC and even some that is not BIOS compatible. Leif Andrew Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77 / Currently at Scandinavian Airline Systems =======/ UUCP: andrew@resam.dk, phone: +45 32 32 51 54 \ SAS, RESAM Project Office, CPHML-V, P.O.BOX 150, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark > > Read oe as: o / (slash) and OE as O / (slash) < <