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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:38:49 -0700
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:41:56 +1000 (EST) 
 Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org> wrote:

 > I believe this is a DEC marketing ploy - Digital Unix may test for the
 > different processor and fail on the cheap one, simply so they can subsidise
 > the cost of Digital Unix without making it look _too_ expensive.

No.  The "cheap" ones are incapable of running other than NT PALcode.

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