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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rosemary Moskowitz, Marketing Director
Voice: 215-653-5685
FAX: 215-631-0414
Productivity Solutions announces availability of the second printing of
OS/2 2.1 Unleashed
OS/2 2.1 Unleashed Acclaimed by OS/2 Users
As the Best Reference Book for IBM's new OS/2r 2.1 Operating System
NORRISTOWN, PA, June 1, 1993--Productivity Solutions
Book Division announced today availability of the second
printing of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed. The first printing sold out
in just 6 weeks placing this book among the fastest selling
and most popular of available OS/2 books. In the forword to
the second printing James Cannavino, IBM Senior Vice-President and
General Manager Personal Systems said, "the authors span our
industry and possess years of experience with the OS/2
operating system. Several of the authors are members of the
original OS/2 design and development team, bringing an
unequaled level of OS/2 knowledge to a single book." The
book was also praised by Lee Reiswig, President of IBM
Personal Software Products Division, during official launch
announcements of the OS/2 2.1 operating system on May 18.
David Moskowitz, President of Norristown, PA firm,
Productivity Solutions, with David Kerr of IBM are the
featured authors, with 11 additional contributing authors
including Rick McGuire head of the IBM REXX Language
Development Group and Mike Perks, Advisory Programmer for
OS/2 Technical Planning. Scott Kliger of the OS/2
development team at Word Perfect Corporation was the primary
technical editor of the book. Kliger was previously a member
of the IBM OS/2 Development Team in Boca Raton, Florida.
What readers around the world say
First published at the end of February, 1993, thousands
of OS/2 users heard about OS/2 2.1 Unleashed from discussions
in on-line services such as CompuServer, Internet, Fido Net
as well as at OS/2 User Group meetings and technical
conferences around the world. According to David Cittadini,
Senior Consultant of Price Waterhouse of Wellington, New
Zealand, "The three most important ideas I picked up from
this book were about using and controlling the Workplace
Shell, tuning the system and video subsystems. These ideas
are missing in lots of other books." Andy Yu, Senior
Technical Analyst of the BC Systems Corporation of Victoria,
B.C. Canada," I enjoyed reading the book very much. It's an
excellent reference book on OS/2 for both advanced and
beginner users. If I had this book on Day 1, it would have
saved me **lots** of time!" Software developer president,
Lee W. Wiley of International Expert Systems of Houston,
Texas, "Your book is great! Your explanation of system
configuration, setup and tuning answered questions which we
have been wondering about for over a year. This alone is
well worth the price of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed."
According to David Kerr, "in writing my sections I set
out to document information not properly described in any
other book. All of the other authors did the same thing."
This attention to detail paid off. One reader, Steve
Gallagher, IBM Team OS/2 member in North Carolina says, "I
have read probably a dozen books on OS/2, but OS/2 2.1
Unleashed is the only one that 'made the cut' and sits next
to my computer at work." Paul Duncanson, President of the
Los Angeles OS/2 Users group says, "I've been programming
OS/2 for over 5 years, and am amazed at the amount of new
information for me in this book!"
Best Source for Tips and Tricks
The book is 1134 pages in 18 chapters and includes a
disk of 8 of the best shareware utilities for OS/2. There
are many techniques and tricks about OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 which
are not documented, or inadequately documented anywhere else.
Readers can troubleshoot their Windows 3.1 and DOS
applications as well as discover ways to prevent problems.
According to David Moskowitz, "we included tips and tricks
that are useful to almost everyone who uses or supports OS/2
from beginner to power-user. Even the person who only uses
OS/2 2.1 to multitask DOS and Windows applications will find
usable information in the book. All the contributors wanted
to make this _the_ OS/2 2.1 reference book."
Pricing and Availability
Price is $34.95, plus shipping and handling. Telephone or
fax orders for the book can be placed by calling Productivity
Solutions: 215-631-5685 or fax: 215-631-0414. All books
ordered from Productivity Solutions are signed by featured
author David Moskowitz. The publisher is SAMS Publishing,
ISBN No. 0672-30240-3.
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