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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 machines
Keywords: OS/2
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Date: 26 Oct 89 22:43:38 GMT
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Over the summer PC Week had an article which said OS/2 2.0 is due out early
next year and is written for the 386 only, which among other things, means
an end to the 64K segment limit.  Maybe with a little luck we'll get the DOS
box into a V86 mode session, so we can have more 350K free.
As far as minimum memory goes for OS/2, IBM says 4MB are needed for the 
base system, but having worked in a company with a heavy OS/2 base, PC
support in the company was recommending a minimum of 8 to do anything useful.
However, that was mostly because everyone was using extended edition with 
the Comm Manager and other CPU/Memory-intensive applications...
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