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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991May06.115102.22521@virtech.uucp>
Date: 6 May 91 11:51:02 GMT
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larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>Interesting... We run Progress on our multiprocessor Arix box -
>and I wonder if the data files would run under Progress on a
>386 Unix box?

Not knowing the byte ordering on the Arix box, I would say that that is
the area to worry about.  There aren't many machines other than intel and
DEC that use the little endian format.
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