Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!alistair
From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and 386sx machines
Message-ID: <56115@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 17:20:14 GMT
References: <6534.26ae1eb3@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <6534.26ae1eb3@uwovax.uwo.ca> baer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>limitations (16-bit path, etc.).   A salesperson trying to push a DX over
>an SX told me that the memory addressing limitations meant that many
>32-bit applications (unless they were specifically programmed around
>the limitations of the SX chip), including OS/2 2.0, would not run on 
>an SX machine.  Is this claim garbage, as I suspect, or is there something
>to it?


Your salesman is very wrong - tell him about logical to physical address
mapping as a feature of virtual memory on 386sx,dx & 486 - and then
ask him to explain what this special programming is!

Win3 & os/2 2.0 both run just fine on 386sx, but both gain from
extra i/o bandwidth usually associated with a full 32-bit data bus.

Speak to a different salesman!

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft