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[Bill Heiser]

In article <1991Apr29.031654.17360 at agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343 at violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
>In article <1991Apr28.225644.10469 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>ilan343 at violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
>>
>>>By the way, are there any mainstream commercial applications
>>>(WordPerferct, 123, Dbase, etc) that won't run under  some 386 Unix
>>>variants? 
>>
>>Sure - look at Norton - they are specifically for Interactive.
>
>Is this for real or is just Interactive's marketing?  They distribute
>Norton, right?  Does the software use any ISC specific feature (file
>system, drivers) ?
>

Well, I for one wouldn't even consider trying to run something like
Norton Utilities on a system which was not specifically supported by
Norton.  It does such specific things (such as dealing with disk sectors)
that it could make a real mess of things in a hurry.


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