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Article #1691Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Robert L Maynard
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 06:25
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 06:25
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In article <41jpp3$7pn@alaska.nwlink.com>, Jack Love <jackl@nwlink.com> wrote: >In article <adtDDu9z1.EtI@netcom.com>, adt@netcom.com says... >> >>Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote: > ... >I don't believe os/2 1.0 ran on 286s so that probably wasn't the issue. >They wanted to avoid creating a more competent operating system which MIGHT >compete with their other systems. IBM is a very large company with many >product lines whose managers are each required to show a profit. If one >manager's line would kill another manager's line and that manager has a veto >on the development of the killing line, what exactly do you think would >happen?? > >Read Big Blues for some very interesting information on the internal structure >of IBM. > IBM OS/2 1.3 runs just fine on my '286/12 MHz box. 1.3 Standard Edition did and now 1.3 Extended Edition does. Big Blues isn't exactly an unbiased source, either. Bob
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.umt.edu!not-for-mail From: maynard@selway.umt.edu (Robert L Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Date: 26 Aug 1995 00:25:22 -0600 Organization: University of Montana, Missoula Message-ID: <41meoi$i58@selway.umt.edu> References: <41fev0$ngl@calvin.bellahs.com> <41ihndINN2ij@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <adtDDu9z1.EtI@netcom.com> <41jpp3$7pn@alaska.nwlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: selway.umt.edu