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From: erik@mpx2.UUCP (Erik Murrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v16i034: Larry Wall's Configure - (nf)
Summary: Not another SCO/Microport war Please?!?!?
Message-ID: <265@mpx2.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 23:20:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: mpx2.265
References: <0@andrew.UUCP> <3100001@nixpbe.UUCP>
Organization: MPX Data Systems, Inc. ,  Wayne, PA
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In article <3100001@nixpbe.UUCP>, kebsch@nixpbe writes:
> Jay Libove wrote:
> > 1) that you have Perl. Perl doesn't run on 80286 machines. Not at all.
> 			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> That's wrong! I yacc'ed perl.y on a 32 bit machine and compiled
> Perl-2.0, Patchlevel-14 on a 80286 machine. It runs pretty good and
> I have no problems! My Operatingsystem is UNIX Sytem V Rel-2 (Microport).
> So don't flame on Larry Wall, flame on SCO Xenix SysV/286 v2.2.1.
> 


Oh, no.  Not again...  I would note that your microport yacc wouldn't
compile perl.y either, unless you just wanted to yacc it on a 32
bit box for no reason.  This is an 80286 problem, not SCO's, not Microport's.

Let's not start another SCO/Microport war...


-- 
Erik Murrey
MPX Data Systems, Inc.
erik@mpx2.UUCP
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