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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.212706.17365@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Apr28.212531.14727@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr28.225644.10469@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr29.031654.17360@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 21:27:06 GMT

In article <1991Apr29.031654.17360@agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
>In article <1991Apr28.225644.10469@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
>>
>>>By the way, are there any mainstream commercial applications
>>>(WordPerferct, 123, Dbase, etc) that won't run under  some 386 Unix
>>>variants? 
>>
>>Sure - look at Norton - they are specifically for Interactive.
>
>Is this for real or is just Interactive's marketing?  They distribute
>Norton, right?  Does the software use any ISC specific feature (file
>system, drivers) ?
>

Well, I for one wouldn't even consider trying to run something like
Norton Utilities on a system which was not specifically supported by
Norton.  It does such specific things (such as dealing with disk sectors)
that it could make a real mess of things in a hurry.


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