Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!arnor!larios!db3l From: db3l@ibm.com (David Bolen) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: os/2 difference Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 17:40:01 GMT References: <11420001@acf3.NYU.EDU> Sender: news@arnor.uucp (NNTP News Poster) Organization: Laboratory Automation, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU's message of 11 Jan 91 04:21:00 GMT In article <11420001@acf3.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary Chapman) writes: >What would be the difference between installing OS/2 standard edition and >installing OS/2 extended edition, but not letting the installation program >install communications manager, database manager...? For the most part, I don't think you'll see much of a difference. The OS/2 EE kernel is built from the SE kernel, with IBM mostly adding new subsystems (like Comm and DB Mgr, etc..). Since OS/2 EE is normally built a few months after OS/2 SE has been released, the EE kernel does generally contain some fixes that aren't in the released SE, but sent out as a fix disk for SE. For OS/2 <= 1.2, another significant difference between SE and EE was the inclusion of Rexx in EE as a system command file language. With OS/2 1.3, Rexx is now part of SE, so that difference no longer exists. -- -- David -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen / | Laboratory Automation, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center | / P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 \ | - - - - - - - - - - - - M i t h r a n d i r - - - - - - - - - - - - | | Internet : db3l@ibm.com | Bitnet : db3l@yktvmv | | Usenet : uunet!bywater!arnor!larios!db3l | Phone : (914) 945-1940 | | /---------------------------------------------------------------\ | \-( All comments/opinions are mine and don't represent those of IBM )-/ \---------------------------------------------------------------/