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- From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:11:51 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Message-ID: <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu>
- References: <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com>
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- In article <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
- >From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
- >Subject: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- >Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:24:16 GMT
- >I have been using the Boot Manager with a variety of OSs. I know that it
- >works with DOS v4.01, DOS v5.0, MS OS/2 SE v1.3, and surprise-surprise IBM
- >OS/2 v2.0. What I would like to know is what else it works with, and more
- >important, what it does not work with? Were there any changes in the Boot
- >Manager in the SP?
- >
- >Of particular interest to me is: Novell (286 and 386 versions), DR-DOS,
- >iRMX, various brands of Unix, Banyan Vines, Solaris (beta), NextStep (beta?),
- >Windows NT (beta), Lan Manager, DOS 6.0, and earlier versions of DOS.
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- The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if
- it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if
- you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).
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