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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.183758.15203@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1jip6uINNrn2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <ePFoXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1jk77lINN8r1@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:37:58 GMT
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- In article <1jk77lINN8r1@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
- >tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
- >
- >]This is just one of the things I refer to. This is the 2.0 GA box. Which
- >]was not all 32 bit. Yes the journalists who reported on OS/2 mentioned this
- >]and that IBM would be bringing out the rest of OS/2 that was not 32 bit.
- >And the parallel port is still 8 bit, so OS2 will never be fully
- >32bit.
-
- But the driver for the parallel port is, I suspect, 32-bit. We're
- talking about SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE. There's a difference. For that
- matter, by *YOUR* lights, nothing can ever be 32-bit as long as it
- works with an ISA board plugged into the machine.
-
- >Sheesh
-
- Sheesh, indeed.
-
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