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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BSD Unix for the PC?
Summary: Now I'm *really* confused
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.184443.29798@ico.isc.com>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:44:43 GMT
References: <841@crash.cts.com> <28286@amdcad.AMD.COM> <28455@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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In article <28455@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
[intermediate attribution deleted]
> |In article <28286@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
> |>...I don't think it's been ported
> |> to the PC yet, but there's certainly a 386 version...
>...I didn't read this carefully enough.

Umm, but you wrote it!  OK, no matter really; I guess I write stuff I don't
read too (and usually regret not reading it:-)

> |> Oh, don't worry, I'd bet any sum of money that it will be ported to
> |> the PC. You can get *anything* on a PC.
> 
> By PC, I meant 386 or better class machine. Certainly not 8088 or
> 80286. 

But V.4 is already running on 386-class machines!  (That's where it was
first shown.)  In fact, Phil, you pointed that out to us in your article. 
So...what sort of machine were you wanting to see it ported to?

(I'm not trying to pick nits, tho it may seem that way...I'm just trying to
figure out where we are now.  What sort of machine are we wanting to see
V.4 ported to.  I'm glad Phil doesn't want to see it on an 8088!...and I
think not expecting it on a 286 is wise even tho it is probably possible in
some perverse theoretical sense.)
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