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Article #18718Re: Building a PC that can run OS/2
From: Ping-Shun Huang
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 22:43
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 22:43
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In article <9106280040.AA11922@ray.com> paulcn@idsvax.ids.com (Paul Coen) writes:
> I've heard & read that OS/2 is fussier about the hardware it runs on than
> DOS (which is easy enough to believe).
Recent versions of OS/2 I believe are becoming less hardware-sensitive
(IBM no longer believes that you *HAVE* to run it on a PS/2 {grin}). At
this point, most motherboards are compatible, video cards and disk
controllers which are especially beefed up for speed are compatible, and
it makes no compatibility difference which expansion slot standard you
buy into. OS/2 2.0 should be even more compatible with a wider variety
of hardware -- like non-IBM printers, for example. Hardware
compatibility was a big problem in 1987, today it's less of a worry.
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!pshuang From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Building a PC that can run OS/2 Message-ID: <PSHUANG.91Jun28184305@beeblebrox.mit.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 22:43:13 GMT References: <9106280040.AA11922@ray.com> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: paulcn@idsvax.ids.com's message of 27 Jun 91 23:32:16 GMT