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From: cotner@BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU (Carl Cotner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Setting up Procomm (V3.1) for host mode
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Date: 3 Dec 88 01:09:40 GMT
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Reply-To: brahms.berkeley.edu!cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner)
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A friend of mine has a CPU (Computer Products Unlimited) AT clone that
uses the 5 Chips and Technology Set and the Pheonix bios.  He is considering 
running OS/2 on his machine, but he heard that OS/2 is heavily machine 
dependent; that different versions of OS/2 are licensed by each manufacturer
from Microsoft, just like MS-DOS only this time OS/2 is even more machine
specific, and in fact, is BIOS specific and chipset specific (?).

He also recalls hearing that you can't simply run a program that was
written for MS-DOS under OS/2, that vendors ahve to recompile their
code or rewrite it for OS/2.  

Are these items true, and if so, how would he able to get OS/2 for his
machine.  Does he have to contact CPU, or can he buy it off the shelf?

He'd be appreciative (and I'd be grateful) if someone can set him straight
on these facts.  Thanks.

Carl
cotner@brahms.Berkeley.EDU