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From: meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: A Windows/386 "Quirk"
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Date: 16 Feb 89 06:26:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!meyer    Feb 16 00:26:00 1989


  I just found an interesting quirk w/ MS Windows/386 that might be of use to
someone out there.  Namely, I was trying to run WIN386 on an IBM PS/2 80, and 
Windows would drop back to DOS immediately after flashing the blue welcome
screen.  Nothing I tried could get it to run, until I pulled the battery to 
erase the previous user's power-up password.  Magically, Windows/386 ran fine
after that, to my amazement. ( & befuddlement.)

You just never know...

Don Meyer
meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu