Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pacbell!att!chinet!randy
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Buying a 386 clone -- want advice
Message-ID: <7956@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Mar 89 18:10:39 GMT
References: <3177@imagen.UUCP> <1309@bucket.UUCP>
Reply-To: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1309@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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]The prime factor is this: OS/2 *doesn't use* the BIOS ROMs!!
]In short, OS/2 is hardware dependent. If you plan on using it, buy a
]machine from a vendor that *has* OS/2 available for it *now*. Don't buy
]Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard

	Baloney.  We run IBM OS/2 1.0 and Presentation Manager on
	IBM AT's, Compaq's of all sorts, AST's of all sorts, ITT Xtra's
	and I run Presentation Manager on a 4 year old Korean AT klone
	prototype.  The BIOS rom's play a *big* part.  Took 3 different
	BIOS's (Phoenix finally worked) to get the klone to work.
	Biggest hardware problem with OS/2 1.1 is the EGA/VGA card.
	Many do *not* work.

-- 
Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us