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REPRINT From:
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
(From Communications Week, Feb 14, 1994)
"IBM Promises OS/2 Version 2.2 by June"
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by Patrick Dryden
Dallas: The corporate users and consultants who gathered here for a
briefing on IBM's operating system goals two weeks ago were pleased
by the company's disclosures about OS/2 version 2.2 and its
scheduled availability "by June at the latest".
The upcoming release runs well on 4 megabytes instead of 16
megabytes of memory, said Paul Giangarra, lead architect for OS/2
and Workplace OS for IBM Personal Software Products, Austin, Texas.
Some users were concerned about compromises that have been necessary
to get OS/2 to run using less RAM. But Giangarra said that by
optimizing version 2.1 and making some features optional, IBM was
able to shrink OS/2 to fit the 4-megabyte standard base memory
configuration.
"That wasn't possible with OS/2 2.0, but I was able to get 2.1
stable on a 4-megabyte laptop, running slowly. Now we can look
forward to a really robust version," said Jim Stuyck, a consultant
and officer of the Dallas-Fort Worth OS/2 Users Group.
"If it's true, then we'll be able to spread OS/2 across more
stations," said an information technology group leader from a local
corporation.
Support for C-2 level security and symmetric multiprocessing will be
available optionally, IBM said.
During the briefing, David Barnes, IBM's OS/2 evangelist, promised
3-D effects and more color instead of "that neutral, soothing but
dog-ugly interface."
Attendees were impressed by demonstrations of OS/2's multithreaded,
preemptive multitasking capabilities.
"This is vital for clients. OS/2 gives every DOS and (Microsoft
Corp.) Windows application multiple threads so they won't get
dropped when you extend them across the network."
That was the case with a reporting system developed for Plano,
Texas-based Frito-Lay Inc., according to Jerald Evans, vice
president of Renaissance Information Technology Inc., Grapevine,
Texas. "We could juggle all the data retrieval only under OS/2."
In the future, many users will be able to build their own
applications by assembling objects that fetch data from any source
in a transparent network, IBM's Giangarra said. -- Phil Longstaff,
Motorola Codex, Mississauga Ontario