Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: An advertisement I'd like to see Message-ID: <45900152@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Sep 88 14:39:00 GMT References: <144@imspw6.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:imspw6.UUCP:144:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:45900152:000:941 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Sep 22 09:39:00 1988 This is somewhat off the topic, but I saw an interesting thing at an IBM "product fair" at our university on Monday: IBM'ers wearing T-shirts and blue jeans. (Most T shirts were orange and blue... wonder why.) Anyway, one guy was wearing a suit (but no tie). He informed me that OS/2 fully supported the native 32-bit protected mode of the 80386, and indeed that OS/2 was really INTENDED to be for the 386 and only supported the 286 "as an extra bonus". I asked him if there were any compilers that would generate 32bit code, both 32 bit integers and 32bit linear address pointers. He showed me a book and pointed to IBM's C/2 compiler, and said it was just what I needed. OK, knowledgeable folks out there on the net, am I correct that there is something terribly wrong with his description of OS/2? Doug McDonald P.S. The guy gave me his card. His title is "Area Marketing Support Representative North Central Marketing Division".