Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!221.162.fido!Usenet_area_"Cs.I.Pc" From: 221.162.fido!Usenet_area_"Cs.I.Pc"@watmath.waterloo.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: OS/2 and the 80286 Message-ID: <16204@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 7 Jan 88 14:35:28 GMT Sender: ugate@watmath.waterloo.edu Lines: 42 From Usenet: seismo!uunet!wa3wbu!john From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: OS/2 and the 80286 Summary: O/S 2 to be machine-specific Keywords: OS/2 286 compatibility Message-ID: <451@wa3wbu.UUCP> Date: 7 Jan 88 22:35:32 GMT References: <4347@garfield.UUCP> Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA Lines: 27 In article <4347@garfield.UUCP>, robert4@garfield.UUCP (Robert Pitt) writes: > > 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? From what I just read in this weeks "Info World" if you choose to beleive it is: Version 1.0 of IBM's OS2 will only run on true-blue IBM. (I find this hard to beleive) They also said that Microsoft will not be selling OS2 retail but will be contracting to release machine- specific version for various vendors. They mentioned that users will not have the luxury of carrying a generic version from machine-to-machine and have it work and also cationed users to be sure they are buying a version of OS2 that will run on their machines. I am just relaying more or less what was in Info-World. I have noticed a lot of conflicting stories lately. I like the one, it was reported that with version 1.0, after you run 4-5 concurrent directories, theres not a lot you can do with it from a user-standpoint. :-) John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: wa3wbu!john@uunet.UU.NET Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P --- via UGate v1.6 * Origin: watmath (221/163)