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From: johnt@bilver.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Is microport really gone?
Keywords: 386 compatibility, a way out
Message-ID: <446@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 17:49:34 GMT
References: <14578@quacky.mips.COM>
Reply-To: johnt@bilver.UUCP (John Temples)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <14578@quacky.mips.COM> menna@mips.COM (Randy Menna) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience with running binary application on
>both microport 386 and interactive 386? Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.

Any binary application compiled on Microport 386 should run on 386 i/x and
vice versa.  As for WordPerfect, I tried running the Microport version on
386 i/x.  It did run, but it had enough problems updating the screen to be
unusable.  This might be fixable by changing the console termcap entry; I
didn't try doing this.  It could be something more serious like differences
in the console driver -- has anyone gotten WordPerfect running on 386 i/x?
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