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From: hundt@sandolphon.bellcore.com (Tom Hundt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and the 80286
Message-ID: <4675@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 6 Jan 88 21:20:08 GMT
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Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
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Keywords: OS/2  286  compatibility

>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

NO!  A 286 is sufficient!  (Windows-386 on the other hand...)

>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

That's exactly what IBM *wants* you to think -- namely, that to run OS/2
you need PS/2 or at least the microchannel bus -- which is *false*.

Now, what I'm waiting for is another round of BIOS compatibility problems
when the "real" OS/2 comes around...  I hope it doesn't happen!

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