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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Buying a 386 clone -- want advice
Message-ID: <8029@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Mar 89 14:23:58 GMT
References: <3177@imagen.UUCP> <1309@bucket.UUCP> <7956@chinet.chi.il.us> <13420@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <13420@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
]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.
]
]  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.
]

	I think you mistook me....  The original article said that 
	the ROMS played no part in the operation of OS/2.  I was just
	demonstrating that it did, in that the same hardware would or
	would not work depending on the ROM.
	There was another article wondering if Compaq OS/2 only worked
	on Compaqs.  Well, Compaqs will work on any AT klone that IBM's
	will.  As I mentioned before, just about any decent klone will
	run OS/2 1.0 or 1.1 if it has a decent ROM.  The biggest problem
	is the display card, as OS/2 seems to really munge around with it.
	If someone wants to know if their OS/2 will run on a particular
	piece of equipment, and they have access to that equipment, just
	boot the first install disk.  If it gets all the way to where it
	wants you to do things to the hard disk, the hardware probably 
	works ok.

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