Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!robert4
From: robert4@garfield.UUCP (Robert Pitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: OS/2 and the 80286
Keywords: OS/2  286  compatibility
Message-ID: <4347@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 00:27:08 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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     I am about to buy an 80286 machine but have come across a number of
conflicting claims about the prowess of machines based on that chip.  I had
gathered that an 80386 processor was required to run OS/2, and a number of
salespeople I have asked are of the same understanding.  Yet Tandy -in
several brochures- advertises its 3000HL and its "enhanced" 3000 (both 80286
machines) as "OS/2 ready".  Does this mean that there are two kinds of 80286
machines (with different architecture/options??), one which will run OS/2 and
one which will not?  How can one tell, short of trying to run OS/2?  Can an
80286 non-compatible be upgraded to run OS/2? 
 
(My apologies for asking what I'm sure is a facile question for hardware
gurus, but my knowledge of computer architecture ends at stuffing slots,
nudging ROM sockets and soldering the occasional resistor on my 8088.)
 
Rob
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robert4@garfield.uucp                             Dept. of English           
robert4@garfield.mun.cdn                          Memorial University        
rpitt@kean.mun.cdn                                St. John's, Newfoundland   
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