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- Subject: Re: Shadow ram hardware support & OS/2 2.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.194341.17268@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:43:41 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec21.205906.12929@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec21.205906.12929@doug.cae.wisc.edu> keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:
- >Will OS/2 2.0 performance be improved in a computer where the hardware
- >copies the ROM bios into shadow ram. In the case of DOS you can buy
- >memory managers that will do this for you if your hardware doesn't.
-
- Generally, no. In DOS sessions you might get a marginal performance
- boost with a select class of applications (and you can control DOS
- sessions individually -- there's a control to shadow ROM if your
- computer doesn't do it).
-
- >BTW, Is there any concensus in this group as to what makers of PCs are best
- >adapted to OS2 2.0? (I think this last question should be addressed by
- >mail. This newsgroup is hard enough to keep up with as it is. I'll summarize
- >the results if they are interesting enough .)
-
- It isn't terribly surprising that IBM machines work quite well with
- OS/2 2.0. The Model 56, for example, is a very nice OS/2 platform
- (with busmastering SCSI-2, busmastering coprocessed XGA-2 video, and
- 486SLC processor).
-
- However, there's a very long list of PCs which work quite well with
- OS/2. Look for the "PCM" list, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check /pub/os2/00Index file for location).
-
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