Re: Being kind to 8086 users - was: Re: msdos perl

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On Mon, 22 Feb 93 12:42:23 PST, Eli Brandt said:

There's one part of the market that's still heavily populated with 8086 machines - portables.

Eli> Good point. Perhaps maintaining compatibility with this particular Eli> archaism is not a bad idea after all. Urk. Second reason for compatibility that I was too sleep-depped to think of this morning in my reply, is that do we really want to assume the position that for the reasonable chunk of possible users out there using 8088 or 8086 processors that we're going to tell them if they don't plunk down the cash for a new system they can't get the anonymity those more wealthy than them can?;> Sounds just a trifle arrogant to me, but then...

Bill Stewart

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