Phillip:
I'm not sure if I'm getting this right...
AT modes are rather software/OS driven. The motherboard integration may
have or lack some of the ICs to fully exploit its capabilities, but
again, I _THINK_ that's a problem for the sys. 286 Unixs and 286 OS/2
don't have a problem and I think they were written around the original
AT.
I might be missing your point. Like I said earlier, there are some
features to OS/2 that are 386 dependent, but much of the code was
written around that. Those, for the most part have to do with
windowing and task management/slices.
I was unaware the you could run Warp over the 286 but that seems
masochistic. If it works, (well), I think IBM missed some good
opportunity by not advertising those features. but then again, IBM
wanted to sell OS and '386s....
-Mike
Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk wrote:
I looked in my never used copy of os2 version 1.3
standard edition and found
no mention of rexx so maybe it arrived in version 2.x but i'm not opening my
shrinkwrapped version to find out! minimum requirements for 1.3 are a 286,
2meg, and 12 meg of hdd space.
Worth a try then. But am I right in thinking that the AT doesn't
implement all the 286 modes properly? I'm sure the XT286 doesn't.