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- From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.044505.2361@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:45:05 GMT
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- Steve Withers writes:
-
- > At an IBM OS/2 seminar this evening, one of the presenters told us that the
- > news in IBM's internal forums today was that the Win3.1 support in the CSD is
- > going to also include support for those Win3.x programs that will not run
- > under Win3.1.......
-
- You know, every once in a while, I'd really like to find out exactly why it
- is that one company is able to do something that another company can't. This
- is a case in point. If IBM is able to make OS/2 run Windows 3.0 applications
- that Windows 3.1 can't run, why or how are they able to do it? Does IBM
- know something that Microsoft doesn't? Or does Microsoft know something
- that IBM doesn't? Will OS/2 users run into hidden gotchas that Microsoft
- already knows about, which might be why they designed Windows 3.1 to be
- incompatible with some Windows 3.0 applications? Or has IBM found a clever
- solution to a problem that Microsoft couldn't solve?
-
- Another case in point is memory boards for PS/2s. IBM says that the system
- maximum memory for a Model 70-A21 is 16 Mbytes, yet there is a large number
- of third party vendors who will sell Microchannel memory boards that support
- more than 16 Mbytes on this model. How do they do it? Do they know something
- IBM doesn't know? Or does IBM know something that the third party vendors
- don't know, like some sort of hidden gotcha when dealing with more than
- 16 Mbytes on such a machine? I've asked a local IBMer why these third party
- folks are able to provide more than 16 Mbytes, whereas IBM says 16 Mbytes is
- the maximum, but I didn't get an answer. Why is it so hard to get a straight
- answer to a simple question?
-