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- From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
- Subject: Re: Any news on OS/2 2.1?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.173409.2359@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <gershon.722754974@husc10> <921214190925@rgam.sc.ti.com> <dposey.724397445@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:34:09 GMT
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- In article <dposey.724397445@well.sf.ca.us> dposey@well.sf.ca.us (David Posey) writes:
- >
- >OS/2 2.1 is being discussed today in c.o.os2.advocacy - it is scheduled for
- >release in late Feb/early March (pre-Comdex). The Service Pack is
- >_already_out! 1-800-3IBMOS2 to order ($25, 14 disks).
- >It is not 'golden' (a perfect release), there are known bugs already.
- >It is faster in several ways, includes the 32-bit graphics engine, and
- >includes the *beta* Windows3.1 code (which has been known to cause a few
- >glitches).
- >
-
- Wrong. The currently available service pack does not include Windows
- 3.1 code. I know, I have it. IBM did release a beta of this Windows
- 3.1 code a couple of months ago, but that was a beta test limited
- to a small group of people.
-
- --Tony
- quan@cs.stanford.edu
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