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From: jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: what machines will run os/2 PM 1.1?
Message-ID: <6007@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 16:43:25 GMT
References: <25904@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <328@icdi10.UUCP> <8840@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: jimb@athertn.UUCP (Jim Burke)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8840@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
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:>	Noop.  I run OS/2 1.1 on a generic klone 386 sytem consisting
:>	of a 20 mhz AMI mother with AMI bios and a VEGA VGA card with
:>	no problems.  I have installed 1.1 on a number of non-IBM systems,
:>	and the only problems arise with poorly implemented EGA cards and
:>	funky keyboard stuff in the bios.
:>	Generally, if you can boot the install disk all the way to the
:>	install screen, it will run.


Ditto.  I have run OS/2 and presentation manager on a variety of clones.
As long as IBM has to support AT bus machines, it will be very hard for
them to produce software that doesn't run on clones.  
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