Hi James,

On 14-Nov-99, James Mckenzie wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

 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
 ET>> edition) publisher SAMS PUBLISHING ISBN 0-672-30545-3

 ET>> I can't find any notion of a statement like "the AMI BIOS must
 ET>> have a date somewhere in 1990 to support OS/2" in this book.
 ET>> Please tell 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
 ET>> Warp 3" or in the "OS/2 Warp 4, Up and Running" book.

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

Oh yes it was! (Sorry, couldn't resist. The pantomine season is
rapidly approaching. ) It's in the Warp Connect Red Users Guide
chapter 20 (page 300 et sequa in my copy). They document a 9/90 cutoff
date for AMI BIOSs due to a problem with IDE timings.


George

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