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- From: bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
- Subject: Re: UUPC on an 8088?
- In-Reply-To: derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18: 11:54 GM
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- Message-ID: <9212221527.AA17740@slate.src.honeywell.com>
- Posted-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 09: 27:41 CST
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:27:41 GMT
- Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 09: 27:42 CST
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- derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek Terveer) wrote:
-
- >Clayton Haapala (clay@haapi.mn.org) wrote:
- >: A prospective MN.Org member wants to know if he can run UUPC on an
- >: 8088 Compaq computer. Any of you UUPC experts out there know if this
- >: can be done or not?
- >
- >Depending on the version of uupc and other unix-mail/news-under-dos
- >clones, it will probably run on an 8088. I saw and worked with a
- >version that ran on the 8086. However, it may not be very feature
- >rich, like some of the more powerful versions due to the limitations of
- >the 8088.
-
- I had UUPC running under OS/2 for 6 months or so and it worked fine.
- There were two versions of the binaries and (I think) just one version
- of sources, although low-level drivers were split between dos and
- OS/2 files.
-
- Pete
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