move the big AVAILABILITY list to perlport as Supported Platforms

(Tom Christiansen); add few more platforms

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@@ -1766,6 +1766,150 @@ First public release with perl5.005.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 Supported Platforms
+
+As of early March 2000 (the Perl release 5.6.0), the following
+platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
+distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
+
+	AIX
+	DOS DJGPP 	1)
+	FreeBSD
+	HP-UX
+	IRIX
+	Linux
+	LynxOS
+	MachTen
+	MPE/iX
+	NetBSD
+	OpenBSD
+	OS/2
+	QNX
+	Rhapsody/Darwin 2)
+	Solaris
+	SVR4
+	Tru64 UNIX      3)
+	UNICOS
+	UNICOS/mk
+	Unixware
+	VMS
+	VOS
+	Windows 3.1     1)
+	Windows 95      1) 4)
+	Windows 98      1) 4)
+	Windows NT      1) 4)
+
+        1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used
+        2) new in 5.6.0: the BSD/NeXT-based UNIX of Mac OS X
+        3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
+        4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
+
+The following platforms worked for the previous major release
+(5.005_03 being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early
+March 2000), but be did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0
+release of Perl.  There is a very good chance that these will work
+just fine with 5.6.0.
+
+	A/UX
+	BeOS
+	BSD/OS
+	DG/UX
+	DYNIX/ptx
+	DomainOS
+	Hurd
+	NextSTEP
+	OpenSTEP
+	PowerMAX
+	SCO ODT/OSR	
+	SunOS
+	Ultrix
+
+The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_03
+being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early March 2000).
+However, standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation
+in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC platform.
+Support for this platform may be enabled in a future release:
+
+	OS390	1)
+
+	1) Previously known as MVS, or OpenEdition MVS.
+
+Strongly related to the OS390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based
+mainframe platforms are the following platforms:
+
+	BS2000
+	VM/ESA
+
+These are also not expected to work under 5.6.0 for the same reasons
+as OS390.  Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org for more details.
+
+MacOS (Classic, pre-X) is almost 5.6.0-ready; building from the source
+does work with 5.6.0, but additional MacOS specific source code is needed
+for a complete port.  Contact the mailing list macperl-porters@macperl.org
+for more information.
+
+The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in
+the past, but we haven't been able to verify their status for the
+current release, either because the hardware/software platforms are
+rare or because we don't have an active champion on these
+platforms--or both:
+
+	3b1
+	AmigaOS
+	ConvexOS
+	CX/UX
+	DC/OSx
+	DDE SMES
+	DOS EMX
+	Dynix
+	EP/IX
+	ESIX
+	FPS
+	GENIX
+	Greenhills
+	ISC
+	MachTen 68k
+	MiNT
+	MPC
+	NEWS-OS
+	Opus
+	Plan 9
+	PowerUX
+	RISC/os
+	Stellar
+	SVR2
+	TI1500
+	TitanOS
+	Unisys Dynix
+	Unixware
+
+Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release:
+
+	Netware
+
+The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
+binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
+
+				Perl release
+
+	AS/400			5.003
+	Netware			5.003_07
+	Tandem Guardian		5.004
+
+The following platforms have only binaries available via
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
+
+				Perl release
+
+	Acorn RISCOS		5.005_02
+	AOS			5.002
+	LynxOS			5.004_02
+
+Although we do suggest that you always build your own Perl from
+the source code, both for maximal configurability and for security,
+in case you are in a hurry you can check
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html for binary distributions.
+
 =head1 AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
 
 Abigail <abigail@fnx.com>,