jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein) (05/25/89)
Has anyone out there tried this and failed:? NEC PowerMate SX (80386SX + '87SX) MS OS/2 SDK 1.06 -or- IBM OS/2 1.10 Extended Edition SDK1.05 installs and runs fine. SDK1.06 install disk reads for a while and reports an "Internal Processing Error at 0090:????" and must be rebooted. 1.1EE doesn't even say that much: it just plain hangs. Good old IBM. :-| All of these work fine on a Compaq 386S (same CPU), so no, it isn't looking for the IBM copyright in the BIOS. I know NEC has a 1.10SE OEM, but I already spent all my money, and this *should* work! (I know, we're not talking about *should*, here. :-) Is the NEC machine *less compatible* (slightly ajar? hardly pregnant?) than the ostensibly identical Compaq? Is my Phoenix BIOS leaving a land mine in low core? Does my Video-7 V-RAM VGA reveal its identity? (It's got the extra RAM, by the way.) Moon phase? Sunspots? Your guess is as good as mine. Tomorrow I get on the blower and rattle some cages at NEC and Phoenix, not to mention my dealer, poor fellow. But I thought I'd launch this tonight anyway, in case I can't get a straight answer from the perpetrators, and in case someone else tries this or wonders what the other brave pioneers are up to. Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this. 0090:xxxx. Hmmph. Fat lot of good that does! Dump the descriptor, guys, not the selector! -Jim Hickstein OS/2 PMSDK Masochists Group :-) VSAT Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA jxh@cup.portal.com ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!jxh