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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: <13449@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 27 Mar 89 17:49:19 GMT
References: <3177@imagen.UUCP> <1309@bucket.UUCP> <7956@chinet.chi.il.us> <13420@steinmetz.ge.com> <8029@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <8029@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:

| 	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.

  Well, I impression was that the original poster was looking for a
clone which would run "out of the box," so in that sense I thought your
response was not really to the point. However, having clarified the
situation, I thought that OS/2 was a multi-tasking o/s. Since the BIOS
routines seem to stop the CPU while i/o takes place, does OS/2 *really*
use them? No wonder it's slower than UNIX, the CPU is waiting most of
the time...
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me