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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. About PRIORITY MASTER II ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
CONGRATULATIONS! You have made an excellent decision to purchase a evolutionary
product which may set the user interface standards for all priority preemptive
operating systems. With PRIORITY MASTER II - YOU are in control of how you want
your programs run. You decide which application is more important and can
prioritize applications to YOUR needs. In heavy memory overload with multiple
applications, the performance benefit of using PRIORITY MASTER II can reduce
processing times significantly for background applications.
PRIORITY MASTER II was designed to enhance the OS/2 operating system by giving
it what virtually all priority preemptive systems already have - the capability
to set the priority of user applications.
PRIORITY MASTER II is a 32 Bit multithreaded Presentation Manager application
which allows the USER to select the priority of an OS/2 Full Screen or Window.
Once the priority is selected, any programs that are run in that session will
start with the selected priority. The Find Program and Run option allows you to
select the priority and run it using a standard Open File Dialog to locate the
executable.
PRIORITY MASTER II is more than just a user friendly method to set the priority
of user applications. It a total performance package designed to enhance user
response time and total system throughput in ALL scerarios.
This product gives 32 priority levels for OS/2 programs in Full Screen or
Window mode in the Regular Class. The lowest level (Regular Class level 0) is
the SAME as DOS and Windows. The other 31 levels are higher than the DOS and
Windows but less than levels used by the LAN type programs. It is generally not
desirable to run Background OS/2 programs with default priorities on the same
priority level as DOS and Windows. The OS/2 operating system defaults to
placing them ALL on the same level and this gives you a way to increase the
priority of the well behaved OS/2 programs. This enables you to recover some of
the lost CPU cycles due to DOS pooling applications and actually run OS/2
applications which do real work.
There are also 32 priority levels equal to and above the LAN in the Server
class and an additional 32 priority levels in the Time Critical Class. The Time
Critical Class was intended to be used for cases in which human life is at
stake and robotics/process control environments.
This product also contains an additional 32 priority levels in the Idle Class
and contains the auto scanning logic option to find an Idle level. Intended for
the professional developer only. There are a total of 128 priority levels.
The primary purpose for the ScheduPerformance, Inc product offerings is to
provide superior performance and control for OS/2 applications. Virtually every
priority preemptive operating system provides some way for the user to set the
priority of their applications. The extremely powerful priority preemptive
scheduler on OS/2 always runs the highest priority thread in the system. Any
application that "locks on" to the CPU prevents all lower priority applications
from running. DOS and Windows applications inherently "lock on" to the CPU and
so the OS/2 scheduler gives them each a time-slice to execute and then
round-robins them. Unfortunately, DOS, Windows and default priority OS/2
applications all share the same level. That means that when you mix an OS/2
application in the background with DOS or Windows, the OS/2 application gets
very little CPU time. This has the effect of poor performance of background
OS/2 applications when DOS or Windows are running. All of ScheduPerformance,
Inc. products allow the user to raise the priority of the well behaved OS/2
applications and to give the remaining CPU cycles to the single/co-operative
tasking model applications.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Copyright and Trademark ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
COPYRIGHT Information
The PRIORITY MASTER II software is licensed property of ScheduPerformance, Inc.
and is copyright 1993.
PRIORITY MASTER II
The PRIORITY MASTER II software and Online Help ("documentation") are licensed
property of ScheduPerformance, Inc. Use of the software and documentation
indicates your acceptance of the following LICENSE STATEMENT, DISCLAIMER OF
WARRANTY, and CHOICE OF LAW.
The PRIORITY MASTER II application is an extremely powerful and revolutionary
product Every effort has been made to provide a useful and powerful product at
an excellent bargain. Please read the entire contents of the Online Help
Information before proceeding. Your honesty will help ScheduPerformance, Inc.
stay in business.
License Statement
PRIORITY MASTER II ("this software and documentation") is licensed for the
exclusive use of the original purchaser ("you") for use on one computer system
only.
This software is not copy protected. ScheduPerformance, Inc. authorizes you to
make any number of backup copies of PRIORITY MASTER II for archives only.
PRIORITY MASTER II may be moved from one computer system to another computer
system so long as there is no possibility of its being used at two or more
locations at the same time.
Disclaimer of Warranty
ScheduPerformance, Inc. has made every reasonable effort to insure that the
PRIORITY MASTER II software and documentation is accurate and defect free.
However, given the enormous complexity involved in the dynamic prioritization
of a large potential number of concurrently executing applications, complete
testing is not possible. Therefore, you must be aware the PRIORITY MASTER II is
sold to you "as is", without warranty of any kind. The only exception is the
30-day money back guarantee.
IN NO EVENT SHALL ScheduPerformance, Inc. BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
PROBLEMS THAT ARISE FROM USING THE PRIORITY MASTER II SOFTWARE AND
DOCUMENTATION.
Choice of Law
This statement shall be construed, interpreted, and governed by the laws of the
state of Texas.
TRADEMARK Information
The following are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation
OS/2
Presentation Manager
Other TRADEMARKS
Windows is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Help Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Use the choices on the Help pull-down to display:
Help index
Displays the index of help menu.
General Help
Provides detailed information on the types of help available and how to
use help.
Using Help
Displays some information about PRIORITY MASTER II program.
Keys Help
Displays a list of keys usage.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. General Help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Use this choice to obtain information on how to use the Help facility.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Extended ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Use this choice to get general help for the program. This provides general
information about the PRIORITY MASTER II program.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Tutorial of Keys ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Use this choice to see a list of keys and a description of the function of the
keys.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. Key Assignments ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The list of keys is arranged in groups.
ACCELERATOR KEYS
HELP KEYS
F1
Get help
Esc
Previous Help Panel, or End help if only one panel
Alt
Switch TO/OUT Action Bar
Alt+F4
End help or End program
SYSTEM KEYS
Alt+Esc
Switch to the next program, including full-screen programs
Ctrl+Esc
Switch to the Task List
WINDOW KEYS
Underlined letter
Move among the choices on the action bar and pull-downs submenu or
execute the function chosen.
Alt+Underlined letter
Execute the function chosen immediately
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Index ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Use this choice to display the help index.
The help index lists the titles of the help information that is available.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This dialog displays information about the application, such as version number
and copyright notice.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. Information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The OK button will close dialog box.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10. Install Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Install information describes source and target drive options as well as target
file locations.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11. Set Source ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Select the Source Diskette drive letter ( A or B).
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12. Set Target ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Select the Target Drive letter (C through K). The installation directory is
PRIMAST2 on the target drive.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 13. Install Now ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Installs the programs from the selected diskette drive onto the selected hard
drive. The installation program will put all file in the directory PRIMAST2.