Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!netcom!jbreeden From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: What is the difference between LM2.0 and LM2.1? Message-ID: <18661@netcom.UUCP> Date: 13 Dec 90 02:17:19 GMT References: <896@pdxgate.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 23 In article <896@pdxgate.UUCP> dmatlock@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Delbert Matlock) writes: >guest@dragon.cow.melco.co.jp (You are guest of dragon) writes: > >>I'd like to know the difference between LM2.0 and LM2.1. > >Rumor has it that LAN Manager 2.1 will be built on top of OS/2 2.0 >(yes the 386 version). Also, all of the administration screens are >supposed to be Presentation Manager based instead of text mode. > >Maybe the 386 code will give LM that little speed boost it needs to >top Netware 386. > The rumor mill also says other features may be: tcp-ip as another transport, Mac support, mail and SMP support. -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."