Intel endorses OS/2

Hey, we even went to a Microsoft OS/2 developer conference in 1987 and have the mug to prove it.

And later in the year we went to a Comdex in Vegas where both Big Blue and Microsoft had a huge presence telling the world that OS/2 was going to be the mission critical OS for the 1990s.

But everything got terribly warped.

We're pleased to note, however, that Intel has not given up the ghost on the "better Windows than Windows" that IBM used to promote so heavily, and has released a graphics driver for OS/2, providing accelerated display graphics for both Presentation Manager and Win OS2 apps at SVGA colour depths and resolutions. It also supplies monitor selection and refresh configuration capability.

There are versions for OS/2 Warp for Taiwan, for Thailand, for English language OS/2 systems and for Japan.

We've always said Intel could produce a better OS than those people at Redmond, but Chipzilla seems strangely reluctant to step on His Billness' fingers.

Here's the L'INQ. µ

* NOW ABOUT SP3 for W2K. If you've got a Promise ATA-133 card, before installing SP3, you should get your body over to the www.promise.com site before installing it, otherwise BSOD will be yours.