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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: LAN Manager v2.1 and OS/2 v2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.231843.20612@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <pclank01.715715953@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> <715986346snx@bai.baylis.COM> <1992Sep13.020934.10147@engr.uark.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:18:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.020934.10147@engr.uark.edu> dch2@engr.uark.edu (David Hobbs) writes:
- >I take by following this thread that Microsoft's Lan Manager will work with
- >OS/2 2.0. The company I work for is almost entirely a Microsoft house (not
- >wishing to start a religious war here). At any rate, my company supports
- >a lan running under OS/2 1.3 for a client of ours. I really like OS/2 2.0,
- >but my bosses seem to think that NT is the end of OS/2, so they aren't too
- >interested upgrading our client's sites to OS/2 2.0 right now. I think they
- >are going to wait for NT and peer-to-peer networking that's supposedly
- >built-in.
- >In the near future, I will have a major influence on software purchase
- >decisions. Could someone please give me some info on what specifically
- >is needed to run Lan Manager under OS/2 2.0? If I can upgrade one site
- >successfully to OS/2 2.0, I may be able to get them to look closer at 2.0
- >instead of NT for all of our in-house applications.
-
- LAN Manager, at present, runs only under OS/2 1.3 (while the LAN Man
- requester is available either from IBM or in beta form from
- Microsoft).
-
- >The company I work for develops bar code and data collection systems.
- >We are currently using Windows 3.1 for the front end of all of our
- >applications for interface consistency. Right now, I cannot justify
- >our changing to OS/2 for all of our work. (trying to avoid advocacy-
- >type issues here...) *ALL* of our work that is. We use Visual Basic.
- >While not blazingly fast, it suffices for the type of work we do, and
- >it is easy to learn is quite powerful despite its simplicity. Does
- >anyone know if there is anything similar in the works for OS/2? Being
- >a small company, we cannot afford to train all of our engineers to learn
- >the PM API.
-
- First off, there's no need to radically change the way you work. OS/2
- 2.0 does DOS and Windows, remember.
-
- IBM is reportedly working on a Visual REXX type product. In the
- meantime similar facilities for OS/2 include ObjectVision, Toolbook,
- and other products.
-
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