Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!williams From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Wer weiss was ueber OS/2 ? Message-ID: <2161@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 20 Aug 90 13:49:40 GMT References: Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Reply-To: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu.UUCP (Kent Williams) Distribution: comp Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Lines: 35 In article hell@fugazi.uucp (Steffen Hellwig) writes: >Da hoerte ich was von OS/2, Multitasking, keine 640kB Mauer :-( und >Doskompatibilitaet. > Is the 640kB wall anything like the Berlin wall? If so, wir sind alle Berliner! ;-) ;-) >Meine Fragen sind nun: > >Ist OS/2 nun kompatibel zu DOS oder nicht, wenn ja, in wie weit ?ia > OS/2 is sort-of compatible with DOS -- it will run DOS programs in the 'compatibility box', and always worked for the stuff I threw at it. Things that will break because of increased interrupt latency or get too familiar with the hardware won't work. > >Welche Hardwareanforderungen stellt OS/2 ? > Someone else will have to comment on hardware compatibility . >Wer kennt empfehlenswerte Literatur ? > Try IBM ;-) >---------- Steffen Hellwig - D1000 Berlin(West) - hell@fugazi ------------ Most postings (even by non-english speakers) are done auf Englisch, much the way air traffic control works. I did enjoy learning some German computer jargon though! -- /*************************************************************************** * Kent Williams * "Had a dream one night/That the * * williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu * tree had lost its middle/So he built * * OR * a trunk of chicken wire/To try to *