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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Buying a 386 clone -- want advice
Message-ID: <13420@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 24 Mar 89 17:57:20 GMT
References: <3177@imagen.UUCP> <1309@bucket.UUCP> <7956@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <7956@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:

| 	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, most people do not have access to alternate versions of ROMs,
particularly legally. And there are really people who can't change a
ROM... most people would rather buy something that works the first time.

  Then there are people like us who do everything the *hard* way.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me