Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Is 386SX OS/2 Compatible? Message-ID: <2518F3B0.22799@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 21 Sep 89 14:44:00 GMT Article-I.D.: maccs.2518F3B0.22799 References: <22296@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 32 In article <22296@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes: $Is the Intel 386SX chip compatible with OS/2 version 1.2? I visited a $clone shop in my area today and they claim that the Intel-manufactured $386SX motherboard does not currently support OS/2! They added that Intel $had sent them instructions on how to jumper the board to make it OS/2 $compatible, and they further claimed that version 6 of the 386SX will $be compatible with OS/2, version 1.2. I can't imagine why OS/2 wouldn't work with the 386SX for two reaons: a) OS/2 is a 286 program and so, even if the SX and the DX aren't fully compatible, it should still work on the SX b) The 386SX is supposed to be identical to the 386DX (the new name for what we used to simply call the 386) in every aspect except the external bus interface, and should run the same software identically (other than in speed, of course) Has anyone actually had problems with the 386SX not being fully compatible with the DX? Perhaps when they said "version 5 isn't compatible unless you jumper the boArd, but version 6 will be" they were talking about a revision number of the motherboard, and not the chip ... it may just be that OS/2 expects something of the hardware that Intel didn't design into their motherboard. -- Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca ********************************************************************** = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n"; "VM is like an orgasm: the less you have to fake, the better." - S.C.