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In <59lcnr$lf5@mippet.ci.com.au>, Antonio Lam <laman@accsoft.com.au> writes:
>In Australia, one of the leading PC magazine, PC User, comparing Win95, 
>WinNT and OS/2 Warp in the Operation System Section of the Vol 9 Number 
>1 January 1997 issue, says:
>
>"Both OS/2 and NT directly support RAID (redundant array of inexpensive 
>drives) for reliable sky's-the-limit storage, while Windows 95 doesn't.  
>On the other hand, OS/2 Warp needs help to handle IDE disks larger than 
>512kb."
>
>That is ridiculous, 512kb is smaller than space available on the floppy 
>disk.  I think he is talking about the 512MB BIOS limitation.  Could 
>someone knowledgable write to the editor on "pcuser@apc.com.au" and 
>explain to the author what 512MB limit is.

Here we go again: while 512 MB is a nice round number, it has nothing to do
with what they are (probably) talking about, which is the 1024-cylinder 
limitation in many BIOSes INT15H hardware reporting. These guys should just
keep their mouths shit when they don't know what they're talking about - 
but then there wouldn't be any PC magazines, would there? In any case, the 
damage is done, and they're not going to make themselves look stupid by 
publishing a correction - most likely on the grounds that nobody cares, 
since OS/2 is dead.

Best,

--- Les

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