At 17:35 -0500 09/10/2002, Jeff Lowrey wrote: >The version of perl that's available is just a regular unix version, >but in no way 'hacked'. Ported - yes, 'hacked'- no.
I have been in the porting biz before. I put Oracle-8 pre-compilers on OS/390 (MVS). It is identical to hacking in a vast majority of the work. > >But really, all you need to do perl is a vt100 and ed, right... ;-) Or vi. > >And if anyone is *surprised* at Apple's announcement of OS X only >machines, you haven't been paying attention for the last two years >(well, 18 years really - this is how Apple has *always* worked. You >can't boot a 68K machine into OS 9). I have only worked with 68K machines, never owned one personally. The 1st Mac I bought for myself was a 6200-CD. A blazingly fast (sic) 66mhz retired in Feb, 01 in favor of a 466 G4.
