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| Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:04:31 EST |
| From: | sbtaus@ibm.net |
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| To: | 32bits@sbt.net.au |
| Subject: | OS/2 News, Views & PRs 10/8/97 |
OS/2 News, Views & PRs 10/8/97
continued from we left off:
incomplete TableOfContents....
Where OS/2 is used
Healthcare & OS/2?
Warp Server and Warp gains share in bankin
Office Depot uses Warp
YEAR 2000 WILL BE FIRST NT-ONLY!
IBM Licenses WordType
HELP US SAVE APPLE
Windows NT peeves
A wish list for Windows
Make "fatal exceptions" the exception
Make it solid as a rock
Office Depot uses War
WarpAtRoyalBankCanada
Where OS/2 is used
Healthcare & OS/2?
They say OS/2 is IBM's most important platform for Java...
OS/2 users don't need speech technology: confirmed by Lou
apologies to Pentium Pro
Case #1 of censorship solved
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Subject: PalmPilotPro
X-Mailer: Top Gun Postman version 1.2 beta for USR PalmPilot
X-URL: http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/TGpostman/
Yes, they are 100% correct:
the PPPro is the new cult!
This is right out of the Great Circus McGurkus!!!:
Colossal! Super-Stoo-pendous! Astounding! Fantastic! Terrific! Tremendous!
And now for an act of Enormous Enormance:
USR PalmPilotPro
Parts of this email have been handwritten on my new toy,OOPS, *TOOL*. Not
just 'handwritten' but also emailed from this amazing shirt-pocket
device... I have an email POP/SMTP client, fax app, Telnet & secure Telnet,
terminal app...and dozens of other handy apps. Yes, it also includes ToDo,
Diary, ContactsAddressBook, and it backs-up to your PC and will synch to
most (sadly only) Windoze PIMs. though I am still to install supplied Win
apps I am using the OS/2 port of Unix PilotLink.
I'm sold.
The new Erricson GSM phone (the 1st phone with a full RS232 port), should
plug right in for full wireless connectivity (Nokia' "serial" port isn't,
it's a Wintel vent).
You can synch it to your desktop via serial cable, modem or over Internet.
(we include PilotLink/2 freeware with each unit sold)
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Case #1 of censorship solved:
last week's Australian carried a lengthy article about Dr Graham Norton the
warped Doctor from SA.
Case #2 still open:
but we still don't know why there was no mention of OS/2 in an
almost-a-full-page interview with IBM's Gerhard Rumpff, some suggested, it
wasn't a case of censorship, but that simply Mr GR never even mentioned
OS/2.
"Companies must have the will, the foresight and the courage to be a
leader. It is only if they do this today that they will harvest benefits
tomorrow." "IBM's software unit has put heavy emphasis on NT Server as a
platform for which it will develop"
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Virtual PC from Connectix ($A299) allows Power Mac users to run OS/2
(Win3,95,NT DOS & NextStep are also supported)
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apologies to Pentium Pro:
some time ago, we said how little we gained by going from a Pentium200 to a
PPro180. The tests were done rendering animation frames with NeoN 3D.
Recently, we joined in the RC5 encryption-breaking challange
Groper, the PPro, took approx. 11 minutes for each key, whilst Wombat
(P166) runs 25min each key. Why not donate your spare CPU cycles to the
effort ? The OS/2 clients includes a dial-on-demand script. For more info
where to get the OS/2 client, join Team Warped:
http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html
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OS/2 users don't need speech technology: confirmed by Lou himself.
Everybody at IBM is developing everything for Java. (except for the Speech
Business Unit: maybe Lynne should 've sent this letter to them ? So don't
expect ATMs with microphone - or continuos speech VTD/2.
What about DVD/MPEG ? Will OS/2 users be able to run DVD drives - or what
Dear Mr. Long,
Lou Gerstner has asked us to respond to your recent e-mail
IBM's strategies for OS/2 and speech are optimized for different
OS/2 is an ideal platform for medium to large size businesses
At this time it is not in our current development plan to provide
Thank you for expressing your interest in our continued development
We made the decision last year to focus on the enterprise
We are committed to making functional enhancements to OS/2
IBM remains firmly dedicated to the future of OS/2 and the millions
Sincerely,
Lynne
Lynne_More@austin.ibm.com@aussmtp
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OK, enough BS from Lou Gerstner and IBM...
They say OS/2 is IBM's most important platform for Java... I even went
But take a look at:
http://www.ibm.com/java/appletauthor/
and
http://www.software.ibm.com/news/24aa.html
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IBM is purchasing a majority interest in NetObjects, the provider of
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How can I believe IBM's BS on OS/2 when *THEY* (not Microsoft) are
Just my $0.02
Fernando Cassia
Interested parties e-mail me privatelly since I plan to build a
Since IBM has defined its target customer base for OS/2 to be the medium to
As one of the largest healthcare networks in metropolitan New York, we are
As a physician closely involved in developing the clinical information
I am concerned about the frustration that I am perceiving among the I/S
Given what I have read in this forum, I cannot say that I have reason to be
Ferdinand T. Velasco, M.D.
David P. Both 70302,735
I am certainly convinced that OS/2 is a viable alternative. In fact, it is
OS/2 is gaining significant market share in the banking industry - about
I consider my web site mission critical to my business and it runs on OS/2
The North Carolina DMV just threw out a windows based drivers license
OS/2 is also proving easier to learn and to use because of its true object
I would be happy to talk with you about upgrading to OS/2 Warp. Please
http://www.millennium-technology.com
My e-mail is dboth@millennium-technology.com
I am a Premier member of the IBM BESTeam. I have 9 IBM certifications:
IBM Certified OS/2 Engineer (OS/2 2.1) IBM Certified OS/2 Engineer (Warp)
David Both Millennium Technology, Inc.
Ferdinand T. Velasco 70252,3070
Thank you for your reply. I will visit your web site for more information.
The technical arguments supporting OS/2 are certainly favorable. But
Where OS/2 is used
I think the "perception" is wrong. OS/2 Warp is used in many areas of
The 1996 Olympics held in Atlanta was one of the most visible organizations
Ford dealerships in the U.S. and Canada are standardizing on IBM
Wachovia Corporation, one of North Carolina's largest banks, has invested
Union Bank, California's fourth-largest financial institution, is moving
NationsBank, will add up to 2,500 OS/2 additional clients and 400 more
Almost every ATM in the U.S. and Canada uses OS/2 for its reliability.
Most NCR and IBM POS (cash register) systems use OS/2.
The United States Navy placed an order for 400,000 copies of OS/2 Warp in
Starbucks Coffee uses Warp for their Point of Sale management systems. The
Most airline ticketing systems use OS/2.
Delta Airlines uses OS/2 for all its gate agents.
The entire U.S. railroad transportation system is converting to OS/2 for a
Half the prisons in the U.S. are run by OS/2. (Don't ask me which half!) In
The Indianapolis 500 uses OS/2 for real time data acquisition and scoring.
Wal-Mart is returning to OS/2 Warp after Windows NT failed to perform
Office Depot runs on Warp.
The North Carolina DMV replaced Windows 95 systems with an application
The State of Georgia DMV uses the same OS/2 system to serve their drivers
Blockbuster Video uses OS/2 for their video-on-demand system.
Usage of OS/2 in europe far exceeds that of the United States. Nearly 75%
Amadeus runs OS/2 to provide reservations services to Travel Agents
The European Patent Office uses OS/2 to process patent examinations
Both Barclays and Midland Banks use OS/2 at their Personal Banker stations.
Deutsche Lufthansa upgraded 20,000 workstations to Warp.
Banca Commerciale Italiana (Comit) in Italy has purchased 10,000 OS/2
Unilever uses OS/2 to globally maintain and distribute the most valuable
Heathrow Airport uses OS/2 to provide communication gateways for the
The most exclusive Cruiseline company in Europe uses OS/2 to book cruise
Asia has also taken to OS/2 in a big way.
Japan's telecommunications giant, NTT Corporation bought 20,000 OS/2
Sumitomo Bank in Japan has purchased 400 OS/2 licenses.
QBE Insurance in Australia, plans to install Warp in over 70 branches
The Royal Bank of Australia has switched back to OS/2 after Windows NT did
The six largest banks in China, each with over 20,000 branches, are all
David Both Millennium Technology, Inc.
Mark W. Pennak 70570,123
PMJI, but you forgot Toyota. Last I saw, the U.S. dealerships were all
WarpAtRoyalBankCanada
In talking to my bank manager yesterday for the first time in about a year
Interesting that it still seems to have some apparent life in the banking
Office Depot uses Warp?
I was at the Fullerton, CA Office Depot to buy a pen. At the Customer
Can anyone confirm that Office Depot uses Warp 3 company-wide for their
TIA (this might be good fodder for WarpStock given there's supposed to be a
Peter Schulz 70216,174
Office Depot does use Warp! I know since they bought a copy of our
Peter
Where OS/2 is used
David:
What a list. Many thanks for mailing it, I was quite impressed. You may add
Daniel Ouellette 71652,2511
In Quebec the "Caisses populaires Desjardins" is using warp throughout
Daniel Surfing at Warp 4.0
IBM OS/2 PRESENCE IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY GROWING
AUSTIN, Texas, July 28, 1997 . . . According to a new study from the Mentis
OS/2 Controls a Major Share of Server Operating Systems in Large Banks
The report, "1997 Banking Systems and Technology: Retail Delivery and
OS/2 is the Primary Operating System used by Branch Servers in Large
OS/2's strength in the upper tier of the industry is particularly
Banks Rely on OS/2.
Chevy Chase Bank, based in Maryland, developed an OS/2-based intranet
OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server IBM is the largest software company in
IBM press releases can be found at
InCharge version 1.02.31 will soon be available for downloading from
IBM Licenses WordType from Monotype ELK GROVE, Ill., July 31 /PRNewswire/
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Geo.
* YEAR 2000 WILL BE FIRST NT-ONLY!
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer last week made their plans clear. Win89 is
http://www.anchordesk.com/story/story_1114.html
If you care about a healthy, competitive technology
//ZiffDavis is concerned about "healthy, competitive technology industry"?
Windows NT peeves
Bill Mogk
I used to administer a moderately sized Netware LAN ( 300-400 stations,
So this wonderful new operating system ( as hyped by the press and
We are still pretty committed to Netware at the college (for now,
As I experiment, I find that I am running into a RAM crunch when I run the
As far as manageability goes, it is no contest. To create and assign rights
Finally got the latest Service Pack (II) from Microsoft. I barely had it
Lest you think that I am totally negative, I will say that NT is quite a
Unless I am not reading the journals correctly, I have never seen any
I cannot believe that the computer press has in the past, and continues to
Will Microsoft continue to improve? Where is the incentive? If the product
I think now it is time to get out of the computer business and take up
What I'd like to see in Windows: Just Operating System. Nothing intergrated
MS should look in OS/2 and take some experience from it. Do not make my
Only a couple of fixes for Windows 95 which has a lot of problems. They
What would I like; to see in the next version of Windows? 'Fatal Exception
The thing I would like to see in Windows is rock solid operation. I'm
//hey - they haven't progressed much since 90s and before:
__________Hot Products____________________
http://www.anchordesk.com/story/story_1108.html
PalmPilot Pro, the latest pocket computer from U.S.
//hey, didn't I tell you so ?//
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Win friends and influence enemies, said Dale Carnegie. But if you're big
The move is great news for the entire industry, said Bill Gates.
His comments were echoed around the world:
Fantastic, said the chairman of world's largest memory manufacturer. Now
In eager anticipation, both Motorola and IBM immediately doubled the
Additionally, Apple is expected to benefit from new sales of hardware to
did someone mention zuchini farming ?
with apologies to Dr Seuss,
from the trainee Piloteer, aka palm.pilot@ibm.net
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Lynne More
regarding IBM's position on continued VoiceType support for OS/2.
customer segments. With IBM's recently announced speech
products, the Speech Business Unit is aggressively driving speech
into the consumer market. IBM is committed to making speech
an affordable and productive tool for a wide range of home and
small business users.
interested in a network computing solutions. IBM's OS/2 strategy
is to assist our customers in transitioning from a client server model
to a network computing environment with Java serving as the
catalyst of this strategy. It is our intention to design OS/2 as a
premier platform for Java-based computing for our target customers.
OS/2 support for the newly announced IBM ViaVoice Product;
however, we are constantly monitoring and evaluating all our
customers needs and requirements. As customer needs dictate,
we will re-assess the need for future OS/2 support of ViaVoice.
of Speech for OS/2. We are interested in receiving your comments
and will take them into consideration as we plan our future
enhancements and releases to OS/2.
customers for OS/2. We left the OS/2 vs. Windows "debate"
behind and moved forward to reposition OS/2 into the network
computing world. One of the criticisms of OS/2 has been the
lack of applications. Rather than ask our customer and ISV
partners to continue dependency on Windows API's, we
incorporated Java. We believe this environment will yield
many new applications, will offer developers additional
opportunity, and provide customers more freedom in selecting
applications.
that we believe are essential in network computing environments,
and just as importantly, making these enhancements easily and
readily available to our customers. We will offer enhanced support
for Java and Java programming tools (including technology that
merges OpenDoc and Java), and increased functionality for
Intranet/Internet environments.
of customers around the world who have made it their platform of
choice. This commitment is evidenced by the number of major
enhancements we have made to OS/2 on both client and server.
We have fervent company-wide support for our initiatives, beginning
in Lou Gerstner's office, because IBM is aggressively moving into
network computing. The OS/2 platform fits into this overall direction
and will help bring our customers into the next phase of computing.
PSP, Customer Satisfaction Management
I believe them, honest - but Fernando Cassia is a little sceptical:
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I'm tired of this...
and listened to 3 U.S. IBMers talk about the "San Francisco Project"
and all the bubbles about Java and how OS/2 fits in that java strategy.
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(Lotus BeanMachine)
(IBM Purchases Majority Interest in NetObjects)
NetObjects Fusion** Web site-building software. Many thousands of Web
designers and developers use Fusion, the only visual, site-oriented
product for both Windows** and Macintosh**
involved in both and THEY refuse to port these badly needed tools to
OS/2. (And don't tell me they don't have manpower or money to do
that... why have they made Open32 after all?).
Buenos Aires, Argentina
mailto:fcassia@theoffice.net
petition homepage with a list of people that would BUY these tools if
ported to os/2.
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Healthcare & OS/2?
Ferdinand T. Velasco 70252,3070
large enterprise, I am curious whether IBM considers the healthcare
industry to fall into this category. I am not referring to private
physician's offices, but rather to large integrated healthcare delivery
systems such as HMOs and multicenter networks.
currently in the process of consolidating the information systems resources
of over a dozen hospitals. At the network's flagship hospital, the
operating system that has been selected to run on our clinical workstations
is Windows NT. The original plan had been to roll out thousands of IBM
PowerPC-based workstations running AIX, but a decision was made to go with
an Intel/MS WinNT solution instead. The problem is that MS WinNT has not
proven to be as reliable as it was hoped.
systems in our institution, I regard the operating system of clinical
workstations as "mission critical." This is particularly true as we move
towards a paperless environment and have come to depend on these systems
for vital information about our patients. Having systems "down" for even a
few hours is intolerable when patient safety is in question.
staff in trying to establish MS WinNT as a suitable OS for our clinical
workstations. Since AIX is out of the question now that the nursing units
are populated by Intel-based PCs rather than IBM RS/6000s, should OS/2 be
considered a viable alternative to WinNT?
optimistic about OS/2's market future. However, the healthcare industry is
one area presently were the I/S sector is experiencing tremendous growth.
It would seem to me that, in addition to the large financial institutions
and other corporations with which it has enjoyed success historically, the
integrated healthcare delivery systems are among the enterprises that IBM
should direct its efforts to promote OS/2 as a "mission critical"
alternative to MS Windows NT.
significantly faster, more secure, takes less hard drive space, costs less
to own and administer, and scales up far better than win nt.
10% gain so far this year in both server and client installations. Banks
have made the choice to go to OS/2 based on its reliability. Surely a
clinical workstation is just as mission critical, if not more so, to the
people involved as a banking application.
Warp 4. It has run for as much as 3,000 hours on a 24x7 schedule without a
glitch before I *intentionally* took it down to upgrade some software.
application in favor of an OS/2 based solution. The reason - the windows
based client side of the solution was down every week causing long delays
and a great deal of frustration. The only problem they still have is the
couple NT servers which still crash.
oriented technology.
check out my web site at
IBM Certified OS/2 Engineer (Warp Connect) IBM Certified OS/2 Engineer
(Warp 4) IBM Certified Warp Server Engineer IBM Certified Warp Server
Administrator IBM Certified OS/2 Instructor IBM Certified Warp Server
Instructor IBM Certified Enterprise Communications Specialist IBM Certified
Enterprise Network Engineer
without IBM itself promoting the product in this particular industry, as it
has in the banking industry, it would be very difficult to convince the I/S
leadership to make the switch. Except as a platform for such specialized
applications as the ones you mentioned, the perception is that there really
isn't much of a future for OS/2.
David P. Both 70302,735
business and government in North America and around the world which touch
almost everyone.
using OS/2. Over 7,000 PCs and laptops, all running OS/2 and connected to
over 250 separate LANs were be used for scoring, Lotus Notes E-mail,
multimedia kiosks and much more. Scoring systems were linked to timing
devices which recorded results and competition statistics. Results were
collected on an OS/2 Server using DB/2 Database for OS/2. After validation
by judges, local results were sent via wireless LAN to a central database
on a System/390 for distribution to other venues. Although IBM experienced
some minor problems with the system, none of the problems were related to
OS/2 Warp or any of the functions performed by systems running Warp.
workstations that run English and French versions of OS/2 2.11. Long term
they will migrate to OS/2 Warp. In addition, when the Ford Motor Company
decided to launch Fordstar, a PC-based satellite system to communicate with
the company's North American dealers, it chose IBM as its primary supplier.
At its core, Fordstar will use IBM's advanced PC technology as well as
OS/2.
$30 million to standardize on an OS/2 Warp-based retail system network
throughout 500 branches.
more than half of its 7,000 employees onto OS/2 Warp in a dramatic attempt
to improve customer service and boost its bottom line.
servers in Florida, joining the 1,700 clients and 250 servers already in
use throughout Georgia.
late 1995.
cash registers in each of more than 1,600 stores are controlled by a
computer running Warp.
critical application. The CSX (Railroad) transportation system uses OS/2
extensively.
many states the federal judicial system is run on OS/2. Most computers in
police cars use OS/2.
satisfactorily.
driven by OS/2 Warp on all their workstations. They no longer suffer
crippling downtime or long lines of frustrated people trying to get their
drivers licenses renewed.
license customers.
of all PCs in Europe run OS/2. Apparently the Europeans have not been as
quick to accept the Gospel According to Gates.
Europe-wide.
Europe-wide.
client and 1600 LAN Server licenses. British Aerospace uses OS/2 to
distribute weather information to military and civilian airports throughout
the UK on a minute-by-minute basis.
asset of its Ice Cream division - the recipes.
various airline reservation systems.
passengers.
licenses and committed to an additional 20,000 to be rolled out through
1997.
nationwide.
not live up to the promises made for it.
switching to OS/2 Warp.
converting to OS/2 in their parts department. Not sure about the rest of
the dealerships.
Ed Ayliffe 76666,3073
and low and behold he is running Warp 3.0 on his desktop. I asked him about
it and he said they were a pilot project (this is the Royal Bank of Canada,
biggest bank in Canada I'm pretty sure, in a little town about 40 miles
north west of Toronto) and he'd only been using it for "about a week" but
liked it. Use to use Windows 3.1 and he was running a DOS app on Warp. They
had just aquired new desktop hardware at this branch and Warp was part of
the package it seems.
industry I guess. --Ed.
-CPI Canada Account
Gary D. Wong 102724,2521
Service desk where they had Cross pens, there was an IBM PC330 (one of the
older ones since this was a 486). As I walked over to the register to pay,
I looked at the monitor and saw that there was a program that appeared to
be running on a Warp 3 machine.
internal use, or is it only at select Office Depot locations? (P.S. I don't
ever recall them SELLING Warp 3 or 4).
seminar on companies that use OS/2).
BakupWiz for every store to backup the store systems!
Cees Baas 100271,1653
that ABN-AMRO, the biggest bank in the Netherlands runs 15.000 packages of
OS/2.
their organization across the province.
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Warp Server and Warp gains share in banking industry
Group, a leading research firm for the financial services industry, IBM's
OS/2* Warp operating system strengthened its place among large banking
institutions in the U.S. in 1996. The group reported that use of OS/2 for
servers increased from 32 to 42 percent in U.S. banks and use of OS/2 as a
primary client increased from 25 to 35 percent. "We have made it a top
priority to cement our position as a leading operating system provider
within the banking industry. This study confirms our strategy of growing
OS/2 market share with medium to large enterprise customers," said Mike
Lawrie, general manager, IBM Personal Software Products division. "Our
success with large customers can also be attributed to the fact that many
of them are interested in implementing network computing solutions while
maintaining their existing software investments. OS/2 Warp allows customers
to do that."
Branch Automation," states that of the more than 40,000 servers currently
installed in large banks, almost 16,000 are running under OS/2. Nearly all
(95 percent) of these OS/2-supporting servers are owned by institutions
with deposits greater than $1 billion. The 10 percent increase in OS/2's
server market share is due to the addition of 22 OS/2-supporting
institutions. The other large banks made little change in the operating
systems running on their servers. "OS/2 continues to be a prominent
operating system within the branch client server environment of large banks
in the U.S.," said Dr. James Moore, president and CEO, Mentis Group. "Our
research also shows OS/2 to be even more prevalent among European banks."
Institutions
noticeable among the largest banks (greater than $4 billion in deposits).
One-half of these institutions name OS/2 as their primary server operating
system.
application to connect its 125 bank branches. Installed on IBM desktop
computers, the solution, called "Branch Delivery System" (BDS), consists of
an OS/2 server and 8-15 OS/2 clients in each branch. Across the bank's
branch network, BDS processes tens of thousands of financial transactions,
new account setups and on-line signature verifications on a daily basis.
First Virginia Banks, Inc. relies on OS/2 to manage more than 350 servers
and 3,500 clients located in bank branches in Virginia, Maryland and
Tennessee. Each branch runs one LAN on OS/2 Warp Server and approximately
10 desktop clients on OS/2 Warp. IAG Credit Union, a full service
financial institution offering retail banking products to customers
throughout the U.S., uses IBM technology to provide its customers mortgage
and trading services and automatic drafts electronically through voice
recognition. The bank maintains 25 servers at 7 branches running OS/2 Warp
Server. There are also servers running Novell Netware** and Microsoft
Windows NT***, which connect to OS/2 Warp Server. In addition, the bank's
network of 250 clients is made up of various platforms including OS/2 Warp
4, Windows NT and Windows 95***--all connecting to OS/2 Warp Server.
the world and is the home of the OS/2 Warp family of products. OS/2 Warp is
an ideal operating system solution for today's network computing
environments, offering customers a true cross-platform business solution
that delivers on the promise of network computing. Within the OS/2 Warp
family of products customers will find features such as Internet/intranet
connectivity, integrated Java support and dependable systems management.
The OS/2 Warp operating system is the foundation for this broad family of
products, which includes OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp Connect, OS/2 Warp Server,
OS/2 Warp Server Advanced SMP and the Directory and Security Server for
OS/2, one of the IBM Software Servers.
http://www.ibm.com/news/uspress.html.
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InCharge version 1.02.31 $A100
Bruce W. Landeck 73577,442
CompuServe. It is available now from our web site
(http://rampages.onramp.net/~landeck) and will soon be available from the
Warpspeed updates web site.
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IBM Licenses WordType
-- Monotype(R) Typography announced today that IBM(R) (NYSE: IBM) has
licensed Monotype's WorldType(TM) font solution for inclusion across a
variety of IBM hardware and software products, including use with OS/2(R)
Warp products. WorldType is a font set which conforms to Unicode(R)
standards and provides worldwide language support. WorldType is designed to
be a flexible font solution that will fit the needs of a variety of users,
particularly software developers and publishing professionals. Monotype
has developed an extensive library of Latin, non-Latin and extended-Latin
fonts over its 100 year history in the publishing industry. Utilizing the
strength of Monotype's non-Latin library, WorldType was developed to
support the world's languages and scripts in a single font, or set of
fonts, conforming to Unicode standards. Monotype provides WorldType to each
of its customer by working closely with each of them to implement their
required language support. Monotype typically provides WorldType with a
base level of language support and provides additional complementary
Unicode font modules which support a specific set of languages as
necessary. The base-level WorldType font supports the following scripts and
languages: Pan-European Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Monotype can supply additional script modules to support all of the world's
scripts. IBM required a font that contained one graphic representation for
each Unicode character that they support for Pan-European Latin, Greek,
Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Indic, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and extended symbols that are present
in their legacy systems. Monotype provided IBM with a single font that
contains the characters necessary to support all of these scripts and
languages.
In addition to licensing the fonts for use with IBM OS/2 Warp products,
Monotype licenses the core fonts to Microsoft for Windows, as well as to
Sun for their Solaris operating system and to Apple for several of their
language kits. For further information, including detailed linguistic,
geographic, and character-set coverage of each font module, contact Steve
Kuhlman at 847-718-0400 ext. 109 or e-mail stevek@monotypeusa.com.
bye bye Win95/98
George Roettger [PPE] 76105,20
I just heard via a newsletter that Win95/98 will not be the desktop anymore
after the year 2000, check it out.
going to a 2-year product. In 2000 the first consumer version of NT is
going to replace it. This is going to take some time because all the
developers need to start using the Universal Driver Model. There are some
reasons to perhaps move to Win98 after all, and that is both Win98 and NT 5
will be Active Directory Services and Kerberos aware. The other important
reason to upgrade machine to Win98 and NT 5 is for this Universal Driver
Model. Finally you get one disk that is your driver disk for both. Got a
Win98 printer driver? Hey! it works for NT 5.0 too. Finally ;-)
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(EVEN IF YOU USE WINDOWS TODAY)
industry, you'll want to join our Save-the-Mac campaign.
We shouldn't hand the future of computing to the
Wintel monopoly without a fight. To do that, we've
got to get Apple Computer back on track. Come to
the Web site, where we've got a ballot you can use
to send a message to Cupertino. I'll deliver the
results myself. Together we can make a difference.
Since when ? I guess the sales of Mac magazines must be down, what other
reasons could they have? They never gave OS/2 an even break, let alone a
fair review in any of their publications. What a joke.// //This actually
appeared about 10 day ago... Seems Mr Berst took the petition to Redmond,
not Cupertino??// //I actually jumped to their FEEDBACK page, but most of
the feedback I could find was complaints about Windoze://
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TALKBACK TO JESSE BERST
MOGK@CONFEDERATIONC.ON.CA
Jessie: You asked if I have pet peeves about Windows? Yes I do.
with 5 or so servers). We ran Netware 3.x and then upgraded to 4.x when it
was available. Each server was an 80486 with 16M of RAM, ISA bus with SCSI
hard drives (which was state of the when they were installed) Many times
we would run into the license limit on these servers (100 concurrent
users). We are community college, so many of the workstations were
installed in lab setting, so we tried to as may applications on the server
as possible. Very rarely did we have server type bottlenecks. Usually, we
ran into problems when a lab of 30 students all started Word Perfect at
the same time, but usually performance was never a problem. I am getting
to a point so please bear with me....
Microsoft) Windows NT version 4.0 comes out.
anyway), so I decide to experiment on my own. I purchase NT Server 4.0,
get my home computer (a pentium 133) a new big disk and more RAM (32M),
and install NT on the new disk.
Web server (IIS) and Front Page '97. This is progress? I can barely support
myself on a much bigger computer while we are supporting hundreds of users
on our little Netware servers. I know what you are thinking - 'you are
running more applications (server, IIS and Front Page) on the NT box than
on your Netware servers' - true enough, but at the same time, the Netware
servers were still handling a steady stream of file print requests from the
labs.
to users, I have to start at least two separate programs in NT. I can
totally manage users, and perform many server management from NWadmin on
our Netware servers.
installed when low-and-behold here comes Service Pack III. This stinks.
bit easier to install, the first time. I am a self taught administrator (
not a MSCE or CNE ), and I struggled with the Netware 4.0 installation, the
first time.
mention of these short comings in NT.
hype NT 's 'great new features', like the new UI and explorer, while making
no mention of the above mentioned serious shortcomings.
continues to be over-hyped, Netware will be replaced and UNIX may not be
far behind. Why improve? What else will we be able to buy? Evidence of this
trend is clearly shown with the Visual Basic line. VB3 was essentially the
only RAD tool on the market for quite a while. Users clamored for a
compiler that produced true 'exe's' with no required runtime DLLs. Did
Microsoft produce one? Not until it was clear that there was increased
competition from Delphi and others.
zucchini farming.
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A wish list for Windows
Oleg Vorkunov
VOLEG@EARTHLINK.NET
like IE. Better multitasking. They should buy multitasking from OS/2.
Better Memory usage. Windows just eat memory for doing nothing. 32 - bit
kernel. It still has 16 bit kernel DOS. Installable file systems, so user
can install additional file systems like HPFS, NTFS, Unix FS, Macintosh FS.
Plug and Play is a joke there. So it should be redesigned. For example:
swap in BIOS floppy drives ( if you have 2) and start Windows. It will
understand drive A and B as one drive, unless you remove in Hardware
manager floppy controller and restart windows. Standard 100% pure JAVA
support. Do not make it proprietary. Just cooperate with other companies
like IBM now cooperate with Microsoft developing software for Windows as
well as for OS/2 and Motif. Operating System MUST be just a set of basic
API to interface with the computer environment like hardware, memory. IE
can have it's API but it should be as separate application. For example if
I want to make computer just for games I do not need IE 4.0, but I still
prefer to have single click to navigate on the desktop, because it easy for
kids. Additional applications must not upgrade the OS itself.
computer like another TV or radio. Next thing MS will do it will make
computer as an oven, or toaster. Computer should have ability to
communicate with appliances through special interface, like Sound card
using MIDI can communicate with external musical devices. Standard
interface should be developed to connect appliances: TV, toaster, oven,
security system, washer, drier etc. so computer can manipulate with all
these devices. And then with voice recognition software or hardware
(preferred) computer will perform human commands to operate with these
devices. Operating system should not to be involved in all this. Additional
applications must. There some people who do not need all these features in
the computer so they will have simple OS and applications they need. Also I
would like to see from MS some respect to people.
should provide free fixes to OS ASAP like IBM does for OS/2 (for example),
not just an upgrade for $US79. It is becoming a habit to earn > 30 billion
dollars on bad software and then upgrading it to another bad release. Like
in the movie 'Face Off' disarming the bomb which he armed himself and
become a hero. That is my vision on the future of the computer and
Operating System. Thank you for this question.
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Make "fatal exceptions" the exception
Kendal Stonebrook
KSTONEBR@ISD.INGHAM.K12.MI.US
Error' messages becoming the exception rather than a daily or weekly
occurance. Microsoft apps which run flawlessly under the Microsoft
operating system. An operating system which does not require the latest
processor and huge RAM & disk capacity to run rapidly and reliably. I've
run Win 95 for 2 years now and while I like some of its features, I have
not found it to be stable or reliable.
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Make it solid as a rock
Jim Myers
JMMYERS@MINDSPRING.COM
really tired of rebooting just to get my work done. Further, some
protection from buggy applications that install and screw everything up.
Current features seem great if we could just count on installing new
hardware/software reliably on a rock solid base.
it seems I haven't lost much buy not using W95.//
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enough and rich enough, you can *buy* friends and *assimilate* enemies, as
Microsoft did last week by dumping $US150M into Apple and promising to
continue developing products for the Mac.
every Mac user will need to triple or quadruple his RAM.
production of multi-CPU PowerPC chips running at 600MHz.
existing user-base to make the user-base compatible to new applications.
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