Performance 2.1 - Improve the performance of your OS/2 System!

A Tuning Kit for OS/2 - Updated and optimized for OS/2 2.1 + plus 4 new PERFORMER program objects including DeskSave, SetICON, SimpleCT and STATS - all written in REXX.

Book and Software for only $29.95.

ENDORSEMENTS INCLUDE: "...book alone worth the price of the package" - Bill Zack, Author OS/2 Handbook "...all the tuning information in one place ...Highly Recommended!" - David Barnes, IBM Instructor "...you won't be disappointed" - Satisfied Customer Quote on CompuServe "...immediately improved the performance of my system, immensely underpriced" - Customer Testimonial

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PERFORMANCE 2.1 is both an instructional book, and a collection of software objects to help you fine tune your OS/2 system. We've collected as much information about tuning the performance of OS/2 2.1 and put it into a single package.

THE BOOK - 100 pages - the best source for OS/2 Tuning Information. This 100 page book is now fully bound and written for all users. The first section is a clear description of what a 32 bit, preemptive multitasking, multithreading, demand paging virtual memory operating system is all about!

This first section is called the BASIC section and is written for the novice!

The second section of the book is the DETAIL section. Here we focus on those tips, techniques, parameters and commands that help you tune your system. We get into the details of HPFS, FAT, Caching, Buffering, Paging, Thrashing, Swapping, Fragmentation, Multithreading, Timeslicing, Task Switching, and more.

This second section is written for the advanced user! Sample Configurations are provided for both types of users.

THE DISKETTE - (Comes with 3000+ Public Domain ICONS!)

Our diskette holds 30 program objects written in REXX for OS/2 (source code included). These program objects are designed to help you tune your system with simplicity. We've have four categories of objects;

OPTIMIZERS are the easiest objects to use, they require minimal skill or knowledge on your part. Optimizers will assess your system and make recommendations. If you concur with those recommendations the optimizer will perform the tune-up for you.

TOOLS will help you specifically tune individual parts of your system. Some tools provide information; others perform a specific task. For example, the SEESWAP tool gives you the current size of your swapper file. The SETSWAP lets you easily change the settings for swapper for the next time you boot your system. Tools require some skills to operate. Some tools require more skill than others.

ELIMINATORS are specific tools to delete unwanted OS/2 files on your fixed disk. We have identified the files associated with each OS/2 selective install option and provide an object to selectively delete each option.

PERFORMERS are objects that don't tune your system, but are needed for certain tuning circumstances. For example, in order to perform a CHKDSK on the fixed disk that contains OS/2 you must boot from a different drive, so we provided OS2BOOT as a special aid. When you invoke OS2BOOT it will create a standalone diskette containing a minimal OS/2 system. In addition OS2BOOT will create a second diskette copying the CHKDSK command files onto it along with a few other files concerned with backup.

New with this release are four additional performer objects:
 * 1) SimpleCT (Simple Count) helps you measure your tuning progress by measuring the performance of certain elements of your system.
 * 2) STATS - reports the statistics collected by SimpleCT. It also calculates the average performance with a specific configuration setting and percent improvement gained from last config change.
 * 3) SetICON - makes setting icon associations simple. (even support drag & drop with REXX)
 * 4) DeskSave - Makes saving the WorkPlace Shell Desktop simple - just click on our desksave object to save to diskette or fixed disk. Don't lose all your settings without backup! (Saves OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI, CONFIG.SYS & the DESKTOP directory and its sub-directories and their extended attributes). Supports both FAT & HPFS boot drives.

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