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From: roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: Misc. questions on OS/2 1.3 and OEMs
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Date: 4 May 91 05:43:42 GMT
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rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
>>michelbi@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>>> Does
>>> Microsoft offer OS/2 1.3 at all, or MUST I go through an OEM to get it?
>>No, they don't; yes you must.
>For clones, you probably can use IBM's version as most clones are MORE
>IBM-compatible than Compaq's or other machines are.

Please note that this isn't ALWAYS the case...older Toshibas will fail to
boot the installation floppy.  In older releases of 1.2 this was extremely
fatal; in later releases (and, presumably, in 1.3) it was possible to fix
it by replacing the floppy's boot record.

I understand that newer Toshibas don't have this problem.  The BIOS in
question is Award v2.00.  Toshiba does, of course, sell their own version
of OS/2, but the lag time is approximately a year (1.2 came out just as
IBM's 1.3 did).  Look for version 2.0 sometime in early '93...  (1/2 :-) )

Oh, and note also that this problem has nothing to do with the weird 
pseudo-AT&T plasma display mode.  Standard OS/2 EGA drivers work fine
with an external display.

Greg