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from: Mike O`Connor
date: 2004-09-28 14:37:22
subject: Re: OS/2 and Athlon 64 compatibility

Ray Davison wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>  
>
>>>So, this ECS 64 is a Win box?
>>>      
>>>
>>Ray,
>>Has absolutely nothing to do with WIN [apart from M$ pressuring BIOS 
>>writers to include/exclude features on their sayso!]
>>    
>>
>
>APART FROM???  That is just my point.  I seem to have a MB that Win98 
>can talk to but OS/2 can not.
>  
>
>>There may be functions in the BIOS associated with Int15H that are not 
>>yet implemented in OS/2-eCS. 
>>    
>>
>
>Or, may never be.  In which case this thing is doomed to be a Win box.
>
>My current project is to create a TV recorder.  That, because of 
>software availability, will be a Win box.  Do you think an AMD 64 is 
>overkill?
>  
>

Ray,
Probably massive overkill!
i'm not in a position to evaluate that leading-edge technology - Daniela 
Engert, of driver fame, I know is running an AMD64 system, but what 
motherboard that's on I don't know.
What did the Elite Computer Systems say when you contacted them about 
the problems?

I wish the quality of the TV signal I receive was good enough to record!

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Regards,
Mike

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