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Ostling says a fast-modernizing Vatican has already issued the new encyclical online. Next: IBM is digitizing the Vatican's 1.5-million volume library in digital form to make its books and ancient manuscripts accessible via the Internet...
Whenever the 200 students have time over the next week or so, they are supposed to install the software on their IBM-compatible computers, observe any running problems, fill out a questionnaire and send it back to Microsoft...
...IBM seems to be abusing the phrase "onramp to the Information Highway" in advertising OS/2. Students with Ethernet access will be disappointed with the most recent version of OS/2 Warp; it only includes support for connecting to networks over the modem, and there is no support for Ethernet connections...
Right now the only way to get Ethernet under OS/2 is to buy the IBM TCP/IP kit for the operating system, a rather expensive product priced at $150. But IBM has announced a network-capable version of OS/2 Warp, which should come out soon and will include everything you need to take advantage of an Ethernet connection...
...well does OS/2 perform? This is highly dependent on the hardware. According to IBM, OS/2 requires a 386 or better CPU and 4 MB of RAM. However, we recommend against running it with 4 MB if you plan on getting any useful work done on the computer. Eight MB is usually adequate, and 16 MB is bliss. Increased memory doesn't add any capabilities to the operating system, but it speeds up most operations by requiring less data to be swapped out to the hard drive...