Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!meyer From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed Message-ID: <1991Apr22.221348.20615@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Apr 91 22:13:48 GMT References: <1991Apr21.135534.724@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <15057@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr22.175954.20192@rti.rti.org> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 30 bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes: >In article , cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) writes: >> And by the way (to he who asked), yes OS/2 2.0 will run on a 286--they >> recommend 4M, but 2M will do it. >Has this been changed? For many months now the official word has >been that OS/2 V2.0 would require a 386 (at least an SX) because >it required the use of some of the 386's modes that a 286 doesn't >have. No, it has not changed -- Mr. Goldberg is obviously thinking of version 1.3 when he mentions the '286 and 2 megs of memory. OS/2 2.0 requires that a non-brain dead cpu be used, for real memory management -- which rules out the '286 and leaves us with `386 class or `486 cpus. Frankly, the reason OS/2 isn't already like v2.0 will be, is that a certain company with a three letter name wanted the `286 supported. I've heard that the programmers at Microsoft threw conniption fits when they heard this. Now Microsoft is pushing systems for `286s and up, while that other company is pushing the systems for the more advanced systems. How the world turns, eh? Don +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Don Meyer internet: dlmeyer@uiuc.edu "He who restricts another's right to self-defense is accomplice to any crime committed because of the lack of self defense."