Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!yev_g From: yev_g@athena.mit.edu (Yevgeny Gurevich) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed Message-ID: <1991Apr23.132406.11070@athena.mit.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 13:24:06 GMT References: <15057@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr23.030045.9776@colorado.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 41 Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed Summary: Expires: References: <1991Apr21.135534.724@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <15057@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Keywords: --------- I believe that the minimum hardware requirements for OS/2 v2.0 are a 386 or 386/SX and 2Meg RAM. (with ~16 megs of Hard Drive space for the OS) I had thought that MicroSoft and IBM had invisioned OS/2 v1.x for 286 while v2.x would only run on 386's. This is due to the fact that v2.0 is pure 32 bit OS and needs a 32bit cpu. BTW, I use OS/2 v1.2 where I work. HPFS is transparent to DOS. i.e., when I execute a DIR or COPY command IN THE "DOS BOX" on files in an HPFS drive, OS/2 intercepts the commands the processes them accordingly. This means that if I create the directories DATA More Data Even More Data DOS will be able to access the DATA directory, while the other two (notice the long filenames, upper/lower caps) are not visible to DOS. Executing a DIR will only make the DATA directory appear. This is a very clean and efficient system which allows for some degree of upward compatability of DOS with the HPFS. [============================================================================] [ Yevgeny Gurevich | yev_g@athena.mit.edu \.\...]...........// ] [ 500 Memorial Drive | \.\..]..........// ] [ Cambridge, Mass. 02139 | \.\.].........// ] [ ========================| \.\]__......// ] [ "Tech is Hell!" |.]__\..../| ] [===========================================================|.]...\../.|=====] |_]____\/__|