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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: BSD Unix for the PC?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 02:44:35 GMT
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In article <1989Dec20.184443.29798@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
|> 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 want to see (and expect to see) shrink-wrapped V.4 kernel binaries
for 386 PCs. Not "386 machines", that could be a Sun 386i. Not PCs,
that could be an 8088 box. 

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