diff: www/release.html

[Fergus Henderson]

Hi,

Tom, can you please review (i.e. proof-read) this?

www/release.html:
	Add a list of the platforms on which Mercury is known to work.

Index: release.html
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RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/www/release.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 release.html
--- release.html	1997/04/22 01:22:39	1.3
+++ release.html	1997/05/23 12:46:45
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@
 The current release of the Mercury distribution is 0.6, and was released
 on the 2nd of August, 1996.<p>
 On the 14th of January, 1997 an updated version of the binary
-distribution of Mercury for Windows 95 was released. This is
-still a beta release of Windows 95 support, but should work
-much better. It is likely to work under Windows NT as well.
+distribution of Mercury for Windows 95/NT was released. This is
+still a beta release of Windows support.
 
 <a name="known">
 <h3>Information</h3>
@@ -39,6 +38,31 @@
 	</a>
 </ul>
 
+
+<h3>Supported Platforms</h3>
+
+The latest release is known to work on the following platforms:
+<p>
+<ul>
+    <li> x86 machines running Linux 
+    <li> Sun SPARC machines running Solaris 2.x and SunOS 5.x
+    <li> DEC Alpha machines running OSF/1 (Digital Unix)
+    <li> SGI Mips machines running IRIX 5.x
+    <li> x86 machines running Windows 95 or Windows NT
+</ul>
+<p>
+Mercury has also worked on the following platforms, although we have
+not tested the latest release on these:
+<p>
+<ul>
+    <li> Sun SPARC machines running SunOS 4.x
+    <li> x86 machines running BSD Unix
+    <li> HP PA machines running HPUX
+    <li> IBM RS/6000 machines running AIX
+    <li> DEC Mips machines running ULTRIX
+</ul>
+<p>
+It should be pretty easy to port to any sufficiently Unix-like system.
 
 <h3>What do I need?</h3>
 

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