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Subject  :  O/2 1.3 in Virtual PC
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  03 Nov, 2004 on 06:56
The original starter thread can be found here and was posted by sXwamp:

Here is the reason why O/2 1.3 won't run. I found it on this web site: http://vpc.visualwin.com/

Microsoft OS/2 1.3 Notes

* Crashes on first disk install (Thanks Andrew Clarke)
* Microsoft OS/2 1.3 won't work on any system with a PCI bus, which explains why it won't work on VPC (Thanks Benjamin Armstrong)
* Martin Mintal said:
OS/2 1.x won't work in VPC, but not because of the PCI bus issue, as I successfully ran it (OS/2 1.3) on P5-166 with PCI bus, and I know of a guy who ran it on PIII-800, which surely is a PCI machine. OS/2 1.x won't run because of all the black magic of the OS/2 versions for 286 processors. I'm not so technically skilled to be sure with the reason why OS/2 1.x won't run in VPC, but running OS/2 1.3 on a PCI machine requires just an application of a free IBM FixPack (still available), however, that still WILL NOT make it run within VPC.

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Subject  :  Re:O/2 1.3 in Virtual PC
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  03 Nov, 2004 on 07:00
sXwamp, I've never gave that a thought that PCI-buses is one of the problems.... makes one to try to install it on couple of system to check it based on what you write.

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