Hi John,

On 08-Nov-99, John Thompson wrote to Linda Proulx:


 JT> In a message to George White, Linda Proulx wrote re: Network

 GW>> ???? What do you mean "The BIOS is too old"? When is it dated?
 LP>> When OS/2 came out it gave the minimum bios date & mine was 6
 LP>> months too old.  And I don't think Warp would change that.

 JT> ???

It won't :-(

 JT> I doubt it will make a great deal of difference since OS/2 only
 JT> uses the BIOS for the initial system startup.  It switches to
 JT> protected mode within a few seconds and the BIOS drops out of the
 JT> picture completely at that point.

IBM _do_ document specific requirements for AMI BIOSs. See post to
Peter Knapper.

 JT> In any case, how old is your BIOS?  This machine has an AMI BIOS
 JT> dated 11/11/92 and it works just fine with Warp.  Nor can I find
 JT> any mention in my Warp documentation of any restrictions due to
 JT> BIOS date.

That is _well_ after the specified date of 040990.
Page 300 in the User guide, red, First Edition dated October 94...

George

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