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From: dave@sdeggo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's new System 2 Personal Computers
Message-ID: <25@sdeggo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 03:22:30 EST
Article-I.D.: sdeggo.25
Posted: Wed Apr  8 03:22:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 06:11:54 EST
References: <775@oliveb.UUCP> <1579@bnrmtv.UUCP> <1339@uwmacc.UUCP> <542@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: Lazy Programmer's Society of San Diego
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Keywords: why even think about OS/2
Summary: Works for my clone

In article <542@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> Microport fools around with code in the IBM BIOS chips on the AT.
> Microport will only assure that their port runs on a *real* IBM AT
> with their BIOS and their HD controller card.  This comes straight
> from a phone conversation with Microport's gurus.  They wouldn't
> promise when/if it'll be available for other machines.  This was
> the status as of about 2 months ago.

I've been running Microport on a no-name clone AT for four months now with
no problems and I know quite a few other people who are also.  If you were
on the phone with Microport, odds are you weren't talking to a guru.  Their
tech support people are reasonably competent, but all too many times when I
call with a problem, all I end up with is sympathy, not guru wisdom.  The
product is reasonable, it has bugs, but so does everything else.


-- 
David L. Smith
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