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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question on the 286 Bridge card
Message-ID: <2490@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 08:37:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2490
Posted: Wed Oct 14 08:37:25 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 01:19:34 EDT
References: <15253@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 27
Keywords: Release date, OS/2

In article <15253@topaz.rutgers.edu> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:
> 
> 
> Aside from the obvious question of the release date of the 286 Bridge card
> (I've heard Xmas, but I'm not holding my breath :-),  a few other thoughts
> have crossed my mind. 
> 
> Since all the clone companies (Olivetti, Tandy, Compaq, etc.) have claimed 
> that their machines will run OS/2 on it's release.  Curiousity, and a desire
> to be able to do things others can't do (read: hacker metality) led me to
> wonder if the 286 Bridge card can run under OS/2.  Two multi-tasking OS's
> running on the same machine?  Shades of VM...

Whether you can run OS/2, Xenix or Microport on a bridge card is mostly a
BIOS/hardware compatibility issue.  If the software uses only BIOS calls
and the bridgecard BIOS implements all of the needed ones in some useful
fashion it should work.  If the software expects to deal with the hardware
directly, then you would have to beat on the low level drivers included
in the software to make the bridgecard look like more than a PC/AT clone
without a keyboard...

In other words, it's too soon to tell.

-- 
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