Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!claris!ames!killer!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!earl From: earl@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MS Windows 2.x and 286 - what's the Message-ID: <216100065@trsvax> Date: 3 Nov 88 14:33:00 GMT References: <386@fauern.UUCP> Lines: 51 Nf-ID: #R:fauern.UUCP:386:trsvax:216100065:000:1935 Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!earl Nov 3 08:33:00 1988 I've seen now three different versions of MS Windows - a 386 version, seems to have real multitasking and is ruuning in protected mode - the 2.x versions, which I suppose are to run on all XT/AT ... - a 286 version. Who can answer the following questions to me? Does the 286 version run in protected mode of the 80286? Does it support multitasking? Will all MS Windows Applications run on this special version? Thanks for your answers, Helmut Roderus roderus@fauern.uucp ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have been personally using a copy of Windows/286 on my own machine at home. a) No it does not run in Protected Mode. It uses the regular real mode. You can utilize a SMARTDRV cache program, HIMEM.SYS, and LIM-4.0 spec'd memory. I set my machine up so as to have a extended memory smartdrive cache, a expanded memory LIM driver, and a HIMEM.SYS driver to get that extra 64k of extended memory to kick in. All this stuff worked OK on my machine without trouble. b) Yes it supports multi-tasking, if your not getting overly expectant of spectacular results. I have had it doing several things at once, but it slows down quick on my 8mhz. machine. c) As far as I can tell everything works. If the application has been setup to utilize the newer 2.x version fonts, your in business. Many of the older 1.0x applications ran OK too. *********************************************************************** Earl W. Bollinger @ "You were in the Clone Wars!", said Luke excitedly. "Yes", replied Obi Wan, "I was a DOS programmer. But that was before the dark times, before OS2."