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In article <Bxw2Ct.K62@fiu.edu> ravi@serss0 (Ravi Singh) writes:
>Most people keep telling me that OS/2 2.0 cannot run on any Zenith
>386's or 386sx's. Can you tell me if this is true or not? 
>If there is a way to do it, can someone send an explanation on it.

  When I won a copy of 2.0 at spring comdex I installed it on my
Z-LS/20 here at work.   Its a 386sx 20 Mhz machine.  I had a problem
with the PS/2 style mouse not working, but a serial mouse fixed that.
It ran _slow_ so I did the logical thing, upgrading to a 486DX/2. :-)
I ran it that way for a few weeks and finally went back to windows for
one reason or another.

>	Maybe there is a patch or something. Thanks in advance.

  There's lots of patches for OS2.  None of them were required for
ZDS machines that I know of.

>				Ravi 

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  ___  ___    Jeff Easton             easton@zds-oem.zds.com
 (__  (__     Zenith Data Systems     j.easton@mi04.zds.com
 ___) ___)    Saint Joseph, Mich.     easton@andrews.edu
Monte Carlo   Z-LS/20 - Choice of a quiet generation

ravi@serss0 (Ravi Singh) writes:

>Most people keep telling me that OS/2 2.0 cannot run on any Zenith
>386's or 386sx's. Can you tell me if this is true or not? 
>If there is a way to do it, can someone send an explanation on it.
>	Maybe there is a patch or something. Thanks in advance.

OS/2 1.3 and 2.0 both run fine on my 1988 Zenith 386/16. I had to update the
Bios chip to the most recent, but that was synch problems with a VGA card and
not an OS/2 issue. Also, the old Z449 EGA card will not work. Again, this is
because Zenith's EGA card did not actually meet the EGA standards. 

Go for it. Its worth it to be running a REAL (is that trademarked? :-) )
operating system.




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chad
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In article <Bxw2Ct.K62@fiu.edu> ravi@serss0 (Ravi Singh) writes:
>Most people keep telling me that OS/2 2.0 cannot run on any Zenith
>386's or 386sx's. Can you tell me if this is true or not? 
>If there is a way to do it, can someone send an explanation on it.
>	Maybe there is a patch or something. Thanks in advance.
>
>				Ravi 

I am running os/2 2.0 flawlessly on my z386/20 with 6mb of memory. The only
trouble I had was with installation. I had to slow the computer to 'AT' mode
or else I got a number of floppy drive errors. This was extremely slow, but I
got OS/2 installed, set the Zenith back to 'Fast' mode, and everything has
workded fine. There is probably a patch for this, but I didn't/haven't
bothered to apply it.

I have applied a few a of the OS/2 patches, but none of them were necessary to
make OS/2 run on the Zenith.

-- 
Joe Huber 
(jbhuber@iastate.edu)        | Capt. James T. Kirk on the 2nd law of thermo: 
Dept. of Mech. Egr.          |  "It's not a hundred percent efficient,
Iowa State University        |   but nothing ever is."

I seem to be running OS/2 just fine on my Z-Note (386SL) laptop.


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