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From: lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here!  READ THIS, you'll be impressed
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.050254.2388@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 22 Apr 91 05:02:54 GMT
References: <15057@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <15057@helios.TAMU.EDU>, by jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu (Jeff Rife):

> Ah, but how well does it run on my Super-Yanqui 33MHz 80486 clone with the
> RAM-Zap 1280x1024x256 color video card, the Really Scuzzy hard disk and
> interface card, with Joe's Live Bait and Printers 7000 DPI laser printer?
> 
> In other words, how do we get it to run on non-IBM hardware, and will they
> support same?  IMHO, I think not.

From what I've heard, IBM has or will soon be publishing specs for
microcomputer manufacturers which specify exactly what is required for
hardware compatibility with OS/2.  As long as the machines conform to these
specs, everything should be fine.

Anyone with machines that do not follow the specs can also write their own
device drivers into an OEM version of the operating system.

They've also announced about 20 clone makers that are currently using these
specs, including companies like Compaq, Zenith, and even Olivetti.

DISCLAIMER:  I'm repeating this from memory from a message I read in the
Fidonet OS/2 echomail area written by someone who attended the press
conference.  You heard of fuzzy logic?  That's nothing compared to my fuzzy
memory #8-)

- Kevin Lowey (Lowey@Sask.USask.CA)