Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dialogic!gerry
From: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: OS/2 platforms
Message-ID: <1244@dialogic.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 15:38:11 GMT
References: <1489@abvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac)
Organization: Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ
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In article <1489@abvax.UUCP> reh@icd.ab.com (Robert E. Hodge) writes:
>
> I've recently heard two rumors on this subject: first, that
>OS/2 2.0 will be the last version of OS/2 that will support 
>machines based on the 80286 processor.
> The second rumor was that OS/2 2.0 will be the first version
>that WILL NOT support the 80286.


OS2 2.0 will NOT support the 80286. (Personally, I feel it was a
mistake to support it in the first place, but that's only my opinion).
It will be backward compatible with code written with 1.x by
supporting a 16:16 addressing mode of some sort.  OS2 2.0 will use a
straight 32 bit addressing scheme. I'm shakey on all the details of this.

Rumors to the contrary (which appeared in PC Week) have been
corrected/retracted in a recent issue.


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