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From: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: J for 386 PCs
Message-ID: <1991May28.120527.21336@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Reply-To: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Organization: Iverson Software Inc.
References: <3970008@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 28 May 91 12:05:27 GMT

J currently does not exploit features specific to the 386.  It runs in 
"real" mode, and workspaces are at most 640K.

Obviously, it is desirable to remove these restrictions.  The main
obstacle seems to be finding a run-time memory extender which has no
hefty per-copy royalty charge (impossible for a shareware product).

Note that J is available for the Interactive 386ix (System V flavor
UNIX for the 386), and it does not have these restrictions.

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Roger Hui
Iverson Software Inc., 33 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario  M5S 2K9
(416) 925 6096