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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate![bill.dehaan@canrem.com]
- From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Subject: csd dates
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.4881.26927@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 11 Sep 92 11:58:16 EST
- Lines: 35
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- In message <1840#vall.dsv.su.se>, harald@vall.dsv.su.se (Harald Fragner)
- writes:
-
- HF>I was told today by an IBM person the CSD would probably be out in November.
-
- This coincides what what our rep said to me.
-
- HF>However he also stated it already ships with some IBM machines, as far as
- HF>I understood this means PS/2s with OS/2 pre-installed. Appaerantly the
-
- This doesn't. I've not heard of ANY release. If it was available on
- these PS/2s, I would expect that it would appear on the nets within
- minutes of being discovered. :-)
-
- HF>32-bit VGA and XGA drivers are already done, and there exists a beta of
-
- I have heard that the video drivers are in late beta. I don't know if I
- would call them already done; testing has apparently found a number of
- problems that may need to be rectified before shipping them.
-
- HF>this CSD which is "IBM internal only". He also mentioned September 14 as
- HF>a date for a new release, this probably is a new beta possibly containing
- HF>8514 and SVGA drivers for the new graphics engine.
-
- Which would be nice.
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