Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and the 80286
Message-ID: <530@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 12:18:57 GMT
References: <4675@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
Lines: 16
Keywords: OS/2  286  compatibility

In article <4675@bellcore.bellcore.com> hundt@bellcore.bellcore.com writes:
>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*.

Please.  The original product announcements from IBM clearly stated that
OS/2 would run on ANY of their '286 products, specifically including the
AT.  It is clear that the possibility exists to make a multitasking
operating system execute with higher efficiency on the microchannel,
but that is a different issue.  You can take anti-IBM paranoia much
too far, and far too many people do.  

-- 
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        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame