Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU!cotner From: cotner@BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU (Carl Cotner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Setting up Procomm (V3.1) for host mode Message-ID: <8812030109.AA28853@brahms.berkeley.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 01:09:40 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: brahms.berkeley.edu!cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 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