Ricardo B (ricardo.b.delete@this.xxxxx.xx) on August 16, 2014 7:17 pm wrote:
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on August 16, 2014 6:35 pm wrote:
> > Ricardo B (ricardo.b.delete@this.xxxxx.xx) on August 16, 2014 5:43 pm wrote:
> >
> > > There's no support for 286 mode. 286 protected mode, fortunately, did not carry on to the 80386.
> > >
> >
> > So are you saying that I could not just run OS/2 on a modern Intel CPU? When did
> > that become true? Your answer suggests that it was true even with the 386, but that
> > surely can't be right. Didn't IBM have OS/2 running on the 386 based PS/2's?
>
> OS/2 ran on a 386, but not by treating it as a 286. It had different code paths for the 2 cases.

^^Just to clarify, that was for OS/2 1.x, which was a 16 bit OS.

OS/2 2.0 was a 32 bit OS which only ran on 386+.