From the Editor - Have You Been Warped?

By Betty Hawkins



OS/2 Warp. You've got to love the name! And the look!

Well, anyway, I do, because I've worked for IBM for 25 years and I like to see us put some fun into our products. Color! Games! Can you imagine? OS/2 Warp is not gray and dull. The advertising (yes, we have a smashing ad campaign going) is bright and fun. We've stepped outside the lines, and I, as well as a lot of other vintage IBMers, are loving it!

Don't get me wrong. OS/2 Warp is more than good looks and a great name. It's the fastest, most versatile personal computer operating system available today. It's a real light-weight in the memory department and a real heavy-weight in the function department. It's backward-compatible. What in the world does backward-compatible mean? It means OS/2 Warp supports every application you're running on your computer today and will continue to do so.

Now, let's review a couple of the most significant points: "available today" and "backward-compatible." That means we're not making promises about what we might and might not deliver and when we might deliver it. OS/2 Warp has been available since early fourth quarter 1994 and has delivered on all its promises. Don't you wish every operating system developer could say that?

Unless you've been holed away in a monastery or cave for the last six months, you've heard and read a lot about the operating system war that is going on. Most of what you read and hear is opinion. What you'll read about OS/2 Warp in this issue of Personal Systems is fact. Our own technical expert, Edward Duhe', has been testing Warp since "Warp" was its code name instead of its real name. His thorough article is filled with the features and functions of OS/2--not hype, not opinion, "just the facts, Ma'am!" Read Edward's article and form your own opinions.

Internet Stuff
Internet. Information superhighway. Surfing the net. Whew! This must be big stuff because one of the first new features I hear most people mention when they talk about OS/2 Warp is its great new Internet access. I just finished editing an article about OS/2 Warp's Internet interface for another publication. The author is just a regular working person like you and me. I don't know about you, but there's a big difference in that author and me--he knows and loves the Internet; it remains a mystery to me. I'll confess, right now the only thing I use the Internet for is e-mail--to my faithful Personal Systems readers and my husband, who works two counties and several industry types away from me.

But I'm betting you'll soon be seeing Personal Systems, along with a host of other industry publications, on the Internet. So I'm going to sit down with my copy of Warp and learn to surf!

You can do it all and do it right now with OS/2 Warp. So fire your highway transportation unit (HTU) up to warp speed, beam down to your local software dispenser facility (LSDF), get Warp, and get warped!

Betty Hawkins, Editor