To OS\2 or Not To OS/2
26-Jan-95 09:12:05
Sb: #147150-To OS\2 or Not To OS/2
Fm: Jimmy Giliberti [COMPAQ] 72310,2770
To: Marion K. Marks 70700,2777
> IBM had to slow Warp down to get it to fit into 4MB of RAM, but
> they tweaked the "snappiness" of the Workplace Shell user
> interface so that it FEELS faster.
As someone deeply involved with making Warp happen, I can state that this is
not true. LOTS of unnecessary and performance eating code was found and removed
in producing WARP (for example all the thunks required to go from 32bit
Workplace Shell to 16bit PMWIN to 32bit drivers when we rewrote pmwin to
32bit.) The goals we used and followed said ALL performance had to be better,
not just at 4mb.
JimmyG – as of 10/94, OS/2 Manager Graphics Development now Manager Compaq
Portable Systems Software Development