baer@uwovax.uwo.ca (07/26/90)
Does anyone know about the extent to which machines based on the intel 386sx chip will be compatible with OS/2 2.0? I understand that the sx has the full 32-bit instruction set of the dx chip, but has memory addressing limitations (16-bit path, etc.). A salesperson trying to push a DX over an SX told me that the memory addressing limitations meant that many 32-bit applications (unless they were specifically programmed around the limitations of the SX chip), including OS/2 2.0, would not run on an SX machine. Is this claim garbage, as I suspect, or is there something to it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Baer, Dept. of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5C2 Internet: BAER@UWO.CA Bitnet: BAER@UWOVAX