CompuServe Messages

Warp is about to jump in the marketplace. It will come a lot sooner than Chicago and maybe this could be the definitive OS/2, boys and girls <g> (I really hope they were not talking about Chicago). I will be happy if they go Warp or Workplace with their PCI boards. In fact, I am happy right now because there is going to be a PowerMac version of the T2K (another advantage of having multiple platforms 🙂 But as for OS/2 Warp, take a look at this: * OS/2 Warp II, the premier Internet operating system which will be hitting the shelves worldwide this Fall. -> Built-in "One-Button" Internet Client (uses IBM's Global Network and SLIP for seamless, worldwide access to Gopher, Telnet, e-mail, FTP,Usenet and WWW resources. OS/2 is the FIRST operating system to bundle simple and effective access to the Internet into the base OS. -> NEW 3-D look and feel (LaunchPad / WorkPlace Shell) -> NEW "Plug and Play" (PlayAtWill) capabilities -> NEW Win32s emulation and Windows For Workgroups support -> NEW Multimedia Games API (DIVE) (being used in DOOM/2) -> NEW performance optimization (4 meg memory footprint) -> NEW built-in software/functions: – Person-2-Person WorkGroup Enabling Software LAN or modem, supports videoconferencing) – OS/2 Compuserve Info Manager – Advanced Graphical System Diagnostics Utility – Integrated send/receive fax support – Full Featured Spreadsheet, PIM, Word Proccessor, Database, and more! -> improved 32-bit Multimedia subsystem (AVI, FLI/FLC, WAV, ReelMagic MPEG, MIDI and CDROM-XA, CDROM-Audio) -> System Object Model (SOM II) for faster development cycles -> improved CD-ROM device support and accelerated SVGA support (includes easy "AutoSense" installation tool) -> extremely broad device support for non-IBM PCs and devices -> state-of-the-art interactive Tutorial software -> same old rock-solid TRUE 32-bit multitasking seamless OS/2, DOS, and Windows 3.X application support. . Is this going to work? According to beta testers: yes. All these features have been demoed publicly by IBM without any NDA. Things are starting to look pretty good. Let's hope IBM really takes the marketing muscle to work this time. (BTW, Chicago has been delayed to 1995). ana /krazy images