Lotus-123 for Unix on a i486 (was: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone)

[Gordon Runkle]

In article <1991May4.214642.27855 at cti-software.nl> pim at cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
   bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
   >In article <1991Apr30.135708.19899 at bilver.uucp> bill at bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
   >>On the Lotus-123 for Unix is says it will run under SCO Xenix too.  But
   >>the kicker is - it specifically states it will NOT run on '486 machines.
   >>So they have done something to make it hardware dependant.
   >>
   >>Anyone have the inside story on this.

   >Could it have something to do with the built-in math co-processor on
   >the 486 chip?

   Could it be the software has been crippled deliberately
   (this can be done using assembler code) so to ask extra $$
   for an "enhanced i486" version?


I called Lotus about this, and they said that they have customers
running on the i486 w/o problems, but that it hasn't been "certified
in-house", meaning they haven't gotten around to testing it, yet.

I suggested to them that they might want to do that sometime soon.  :-|


On the subject of Lotus for System V, anyone heard whether they plan
to offer an X version, or support for Tektronix output, so that people
not on the console can preview their graphs?



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