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From: jeffmcd@microsoft.UUCP (Jeff MCDOUGALL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Misc. questions on OS/2 1.3 and OEMs
Message-ID: <72193@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 91 21:37:55 GMT
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In article <1991May2.190002.8474@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) 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.
> 

You meant to say LESS compatible than Compaq's, right?  Otherwise this is
bogus.  Compaq is very near the top of the list, if not AT the top, of
OEMs with well-behaved hardware.

jeff mcdougall