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

[peter honeyman]

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

c'est what?  you must mean palmtops.  laptops and notebooks
run op systems like mach, bsd, plan 9, etc. -- they're not
running on 8086s.

of course, i can see wanting to run on an 8086 if it's guaranteed 
that it can't run perl.

	peter