wanted: UNIX or clone

[Bill Vermillion]

In article <1991Apr28.212531.14727 at agate.berkeley.edu> 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?  

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.

To my way of looking at things, this is a step backwards.  You can't say
"Well I need more power, let's put in a '486 box".  This is the only
package that I have seen that states is will run only a specified OS ONLY
on a specified hardware that is supposed to be upwardly compatible. 

Anyone have the inside story on this.

bill

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