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- From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.ea.dIGDeOhPdiA@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Organization: InterZONE Design
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: Convince me to stick with Atari. Why Bo
- References: <H.ea.hXl2zT2Khgo@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
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- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20:55:18 EST
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- In <C14K28.Cus@ecf.toronto.edu>, AL RASHID SHAHIR writes:
- [icky sticky goo]
- > I think the whole point of the original post was that IBM still had the built
- > int 640K trap. Now that this problem has been improved, problems have been
- > solved. BUT, this is still NOT the case with 286's!! Even using the OS/2
- > flat memory model, the computer still has a memory trap! So it's always through
- > a driver that you get to use the memory, which isn't true on the Atari.
- > Even on the BASE 520ST, you get to use a large amount of memory with NO
- > problem, while a 286 (or less) with a large amount of memory has very few
- > applications which can actually use the memory (they also have the added
- > indignaty of never being supported - not being the case in Atari where most
- > programs are tailor made for all systems only limited in terms of how much
- > memory you have on.) THERE! (*whew*) B^D <---- In a mellow mood today!
-
- OS/2 2.0 does not run on obsolete computers (ie, '286). The only memory
- "trap" is that on an ISA machine, with a bus-mastering card (ex, good
- SCSI controller), you're "limited" to 16M of RAM. 2M more than the
- Falcon can take.
-
- If you don't have a bus mastering card (most PC owners don't), you can
- stick in as much RAM as you want.
-
- OS/2 1.x limited you to 16M of RAM because it ran on the '286. By
- dropping '286 support (how many people have '286s? How many of those
- don't know they could buy a '386 motherboard for ~$150?), OS/2 2.x
- limits the system to 512M. That's right, 512M is the limit...
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- Chris Herborth
- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
-