Mfarber@UDel-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP (09/03/83)
* The New York Times reported in the September 2 edition that there were rumors that IBM would wait until 1984 to announce the Peanut. * The September-October PC Tech Journal reported rumors that IBM was working on an OS upwardly compatible with some of their mainframe OS's. PCTJ also reported rumors that Tandy (TRS-80) is going to make an IBM-compatible priced under the other IBM-compatibles. -Manny
markz@microsoft.UUCP (Mark Zbiokowski) (10/24/83)
Recent rumours suggest that Microsoft made use of Intel reserved vectors in PC-DOS and the new 80188 makes use of these vectors. Thus old software using these vectors will bomb out. Some suggest this is the reason for the delay in the IBM PC Junior (Peanut) which is probably based on the 80188. I am amazed that people submit articles with 'rumors' without even bothering to read *any* of the relevant documentation. In the IBM technical reference on page 2-4 IBM lists all of the interrupt vectors that THEY use and/or reserve. These are in the range 0-1F. On page 2-7 of the same document, IBM lists the DOS vector assignments as being in the range 20-3F. In *any* reference on the Intel 186/8 they list the vectors in the range 0-1F as being in the Intel reserved range. The other 'rumors' are mere corollaries of this misapprehension.