Hello Eddy!

12 Nov 99 10:36, Eddy Thilleman wrote to Linda Proulx:

 ET> Hello Linda,

 ET> 09 Nov 99 17:40, Linda Proulx wrote to John Thompson:

 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.

 LP>> Yes it does.  The DOS unit is AMI 1989 & according to Warp
 LP>> unleashed the minimum date is somewhere in 1990.

 ET> I've here the book "OS/2 Warp Unleashed DeLuxe Edition" (3rd edition)
 ET> publisher SAMS PUBLISHING
 ET> ISBN 0-672-30545-3

 ET> I can't find any notion of a statement like "the AMI BIOS must have a
 ET> date somewhere in 1990 to support OS/2" in this book. Please tell
 ET> where I can find it in this book if it's in there.

 ET> Neither can I find such a statement in the "User's Guide to OS/2 Warp
 ET> 3" or in the "OS/2 Warp 4, Up and Running" book.

It was not in any of those publications, but it was on both AMI's and IBM's
"informational" FTP sites, that the BIOS date must be after 6/1/1991 in order
for OS/2 to "see" all of the system's memory correctly.  Of course, this only
applies if you install 16MB or more.  It had to do with the memory address bus 
configuration.  You could install more memory, OS/2 (and amazingly Windows)
could not "see" all of it.

James

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