Development, round II

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Thu Jan 29 11:04:30 1998

Phillip:

I'm not sure if I'm getting this right...

AT modes are rather software/OS driven. The motherboard integration may
have or lack some of the ICs to fully exploit its capabilities, but
again, I _THINK_ that's a problem for the sys. 286 Unixs and 286 OS/2
don't have a problem and I think they were written around the original
AT.

I might be missing your point. Like I said earlier, there are some
features to OS/2 that are 386 dependent, but much of the code was
written around that. Those, for the most part have to do with
windowing and task management/slices.

I was unaware the you could run Warp over the 286 but that seems
masochistic. If it works, (well), I think IBM missed some good
opportunity by not advertising those features. but then again, IBM
wanted to sell OS and '386s....

-Mike


Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:
>
> > I looked in my never used copy of os2 version 1.3 standard edition and found
> > no mention of rexx so maybe it arrived in version 2.x but i'm not opening my
> > shrinkwrapped version to find out! minimum requirements for 1.3 are a 286,
> > 2meg, and 12 meg of hdd space.
>
> Worth a try then. But am I right in thinking that the AT doesn't
> implement all the 286 modes properly? I'm sure the XT286 doesn't.
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