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Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:16:42 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Removable drives in BIOS

In <439DA471.2020600@charter.net>, on 12/12/05
at 08:24 AM, Ray Davison said:

>Don't those specs need to be applied to a given OS for that OS to be
>able to use a given piece of hardware? Or, if the OS/2 community
>doesn't write a driver, it can't use that MB, true?

Depends on the particular spec, but in general this is true. The same is
true for every piece of hardware out there.

>Just when we seem to have better P&P for video and sound than Win does,
>we have to start over with MBs?

I would use the word evolve. Hardware will always continue to change.
It's pretty hard to find S100 bus compatible stuff these days. I've got
lots of 32-pin SIMMs that will hit the trash when I need to storage space.

Steven

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