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OS/2 Presentation Manager (PM) - Status of Development
"We are impressed with the capabilities of OS/2 and are supportive of
the OS/2 direction," said Pete Peterson, executive vice president of
WordPerfect Corporation. "IBM is working closely with us to make sure
we have the tools necessary to quickly create a native OS/2 2.0 version.
With their help, we should have a good idea of how long the development
effort will take by the end of this year (meaning 1991)." Note: As of
February 11, 1992, no announcement concerning a release date has been
made.
Until a native OS/2 version is released, users can run WordPerfect 5.1
for Windows on OS/2 version 2.0 when available.
When the product becomes available, licensed users of WordPerfect 5.1
for DOS or Windows will be able to trade up to the new WordPerfect for
OS/2 product for a reasonable cost.
Eventually, WPCorp would like customers to be able to choose DOS,
Windows, or OS/2 as their operating system and have WordPerfect
available for each. When a customer upgrades WordPerfect from one of
these operating systems to another, the customer maintains
rights to run both products on one machine.
WordPerfect OS/2 - SAA/CUA Compliant
WordPerfect for OS/2 Presentation Manager will be SAA/CUA compliant.
(SAA stands for Systems Application Architecture. It is a standard set
of user and software interfaces published by IBM to provide a common way
for applications to be accessed on any computer from PC to mainframe.
CUA stands for Common User Access. It is a subset of SAA. It defines
general user interface design principles, such as use of the mouse,
graphical windows, scroll bars, pull down menus, dialogue boxes and
various controls. The purpose of CUA is to provide usability and
consistency within and across applications). WordPerfect will comply
with both CUA level 1 and CUA level 2.
OS/2 Interface with DCA
WordPerfect for Presentation Manager is scheduled to have an option,
which can be set as the default, to save documents directly in DCA
format. The program will also detect DCA during retrieval and convert
it on the fly. Effectively, the user will be able to work continually
in DCA without having to worry about it. They would simply lose any
WordPerfect codes that DCA does not support. The save dialogue box
would allow them to see what format they're saving, and let them change
it each time they save, if they would like.