AVAILABILITY from 5.005_03-tobe, will of course

require updating when 5.006 comes out.

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 Okay, that's I<definitely> enough hype.
 
+=head1 AVAILABILITY
+
+Perl is available for the vast majority of operating system platforms,
+including most Unix-like platforms. The following situation is as of
+February 1999 and Perl 5.005_03.
+
+The following platforms are able to build Perl from the standard
+source code distribution available at
+F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html>
+
+        AIX             IRIX            SCO ODT/OSR
+        A/UX            Linux           Solaris
+        BeOS            MachTen         SunOS
+        BSD/OS         MPE/iX          SVR4
+        DG/UX           NetBSD          Ultrix
+        Digital UNIX    NextSTEP        UNICOS
+        DOS DJGPP 1)    OpenBSD         VMS
+        DYNIX/ptx       OpenSTEP        Windows 3.1     1)
+        FreeBSD         OS/2            Windows 95      1) 3)
+        HP-UX           OS390   2)      Windows 98      1) 3)
+       Hurd            PowerUX         Windows NT      1) 3)
+                       QNX             VOS
+
+        1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used
+        2) formerly known as MVS       
+        3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin32, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
+                                       
+The following platforms have been known to build Perl from the source
+but for the Perl release 5.005_03 we haven't been able to verify them,
+either because the hardware/software platforms are rather rare or
+because we don't have an active champion on these platforms.
+                                       
+        3b1             FPS             Plan 9
+        AmigaOS         GENIX           RISC/os
+        ConvexOS        Greenhills      Stellar
+        CX/UX           ISC             SVR2
+        DC/OSx          MachTen 68k     TI1500
+        DDE SMES        MiNT            TitanOS
+        DomainOS        MPC             UNICOS/mk
+        DOS EMX         NEWS-OS         Unisys Dynix
+        Dynix           Opus            Unixware
+        EP/IX
+        ESIX
+
+The following platforms are planned to be supported in the standard
+source distribution of the Perl release 5.006 but are not
+supported in the Perl release 5.005_03:
+
+        BS2000
+        VM/ESA
+
+The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
+binaries available via F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html>.
+
+                               Perl release
+
+       AS/400                  5.003
+       MacOS                   5.004_04
+       Tandem Guardian         5.004
+
+The following platforms have only binaries available via
+F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html>.
+
+                               Perl release
+
+       Acorn RISCOS            5.001
+       AOS                     5.002
+       LynxOS                  5.004_02
+       Netware                 5.003_07
+
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 
 See L<perlrun>.