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OS/2 and 386sx machines

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From: baer
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 1990 02:35
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Does anyone know about the extent to which machines based on the intel 386sx
chip will be compatible with OS/2 2.0?  I understand that the sx has the 
full 32-bit instruction set of the dx chip, but has memory addressing
limitations (16-bit path, etc.).   A salesperson trying to push a DX over
an SX told me that the memory addressing limitations meant that many
32-bit applications (unless they were specifically programmed around
the limitations of the SX chip), including OS/2 2.0, would not run on 
an SX machine.  Is this claim garbage, as I suspect, or is there something
to it?





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Douglas Baer, Dept. of Sociology,
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Subject: OS/2 and 386sx machines
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Date: 26 Jul 90 02:35:30 GMT
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