Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:2923 comp.unix.microport:2024 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wyse!vsi1!apple!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!iros1!zap!fortin From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: v16i034: Larry Wall's Configure generator, etc., Part01/07 Message-ID: <601@zap.UUCP> Date: 10 Nov 88 11:40:20 GMT References: Reply-To: fortin@zap.UUCP (0000-Denis Fortin) Organization: (none), Montreal QC, Canada Lines: 15 In article jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes: > Well, Larry (for the first time I've ever seen) made a number of very > very bad assumptions in his configure distribution. > > 1) that you have Perl. Perl doesn't run on 80286 machines. Not at all. >[...] Actually, this isn't true at all. I've successfully ported Perl over to my trusty ol' 80286 machine running under Microport's System V/AT with only a few (quite minimal) modifications... -- Denis Fortin, fortin@zap.uucp fortin%zap.uucp@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu | CAE Electronics Ltd uunet!utai!mcgill-vision!zap!fortin | The opinions expressed above are mine