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- «PL66»«LM1»«RM80»THE IMPACT OF OS/2
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- While everyone acknowledges the importance of OS/2 and many people talk
- about Presentation Manager as if it alone were OS/2, they are missing much
- of the point -- just like people who think all they have to change to live
- overseas is the words they use. In fact, OS/2's effects will ultimately
- extend beyond the boundaries of single applications and alter not just sys-
- tems architecture but patterns of usage and even distribution of software.
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- As we noted above, it is not necessary that Agenda and Notes, for example,
- be combined into a single product, but only that they should share data
- formats and function semantics, so that the facilities of one can be used by
- the other, and so that they can work cooperatively on the same data. Such
- integration is fairly tough to arrange nowadays, and is most easily achieved
- by a single vendor with control over both products.