v16i034: Larry Wall's Configure generator, etc., Part01/07

[Denis Fortin]

In article <UXMr1IyW2k-001OHVZ at andrew.cmu.edu> jl42+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes:
> Well, Larry (for the first time I've ever seen) made a number of very
> very bad assumptions in his configure distribution.
> 
> 1) that you have Perl. Perl doesn't run on 80286 machines. Not at all.
>[...]

Actually, this isn't true at all.  I've successfully ported Perl over to
my trusty ol' 80286 machine running under Microport's System V/AT with only
a few (quite minimal) modifications...

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