lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) (10/02/87)
Aside from the obvious question of the release date of the 286 Bridge card
(I've heard Xmas, but I'm not holding my breath :-), a few other thoughts
have crossed my mind.
Since all the clone companies (Olivetti, Tandy, Compaq, etc.) have claimed
that their machines will run OS/2 on it's release. Curiousity, and a desire
to be able to do things others can't do (read: hacker metality) led me to
wonder if the 286 Bridge card can run under OS/2. Two multi-tasking OS's
running on the same machine? Shades of VM...
Answers?
--
"Truth is false and logic lost..."
- Neil Peart
(who at the time didn't realize he was talking about RU)
lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu <--------OR--------> {seismo|ames}!rutgers!topaz!lachacgrr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (10/14/87)
In article <15253@topaz.rutgers.edu> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes: > > > Aside from the obvious question of the release date of the 286 Bridge card > (I've heard Xmas, but I'm not holding my breath :-), a few other thoughts > have crossed my mind. > > Since all the clone companies (Olivetti, Tandy, Compaq, etc.) have claimed > that their machines will run OS/2 on it's release. Curiousity, and a desire > to be able to do things others can't do (read: hacker metality) led me to > wonder if the 286 Bridge card can run under OS/2. Two multi-tasking OS's > running on the same machine? Shades of VM... Whether you can run OS/2, Xenix or Microport on a bridge card is mostly a BIOS/hardware compatibility issue. If the software uses only BIOS calls and the bridgecard BIOS implements all of the needed ones in some useful fashion it should work. If the software expects to deal with the hardware directly, then you would have to beat on the low level drivers included in the software to make the bridgecard look like more than a PC/AT clone without a keyboard... In other words, it's too soon to tell. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: out to lunch... Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)