Re: a 68010 for your st?

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From: John Stanley
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1987 15:35

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In article <1563@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
 >
 >Some third party software writers were less cautious of this and other
 >expansion issues and as a result their *application* software fails to work
 >on enhanced systems.  There are a number of little band-aids available that
 >are intended to make this crippled software work in the 68010/020 environment.

It turns out that *application* problems are, in fact, what was causing
the incompatability.  The people I was speaking to on this subject are
more "users" than "systems-people".  All they knew was they tried to run
some programs on an upgraded machine and it would bomb.  They went to the
shop where the upgrade was done.  The people there gave them new boot
disks and that solved their problems.  (It would appear that a patch
was added to those disks for the specific programs causing problems...)
They assumed it was a different OS and I, foolishly it appears, assumed
that they knew what they were talking about.  Sorry for any confusion...

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
UUCP: ...{amdahl,ihnp4,rutgers}!{meccts,dayton}!viper!john

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Subject: Re: a 68010 for your st?
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