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"IBM Promises OS/2 Version 2.2 by June"
;"IBM Promises OS/2 Version 2.2 by June"
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By [[Patrick Dryden]]
by Patrick Dryden


   Dallas: The corporate users and consultants who gathered here for a
   Dallas: The corporate users and consultants who gathered here for a

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REPRINT From
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
(From Communications Week, Feb 14, 1994)
"IBM Promises OS/2 Version 2.2 by June"

By Patrick Dryden

 Dallas: The corporate users and consultants who gathered here for a
 briefing on IBM's operating system goals two weeks ago were pleased
 by the company's disclosures about OS/2 version 2.2 and its
 scheduled availability "by June at the latest".
 The upcoming release runs well on 4 megabytes instead of 16
 megabytes of memory, said Paul Giangarra, lead architect for OS/2
 and Workplace OS for IBM Personal Software Products, Austin, Texas.
 Some users were concerned about compromises that have been necessary
 to get OS/2 to run using less RAM.  But Giangarra said that by
 optimizing version 2.1 and making some features optional, IBM was
 able to shrink OS/2 to fit the 4-megabyte standard base memory
 configuration.
 "That wasn't possible with OS/2 2.0, but I was able to get 2.1
 stable on a 4-megabyte laptop, running slowly.  Now we can look
 forward to a really robust version," said Jim Stuyck, a consultant
 and officer of the Dallas-Fort Worth OS/2 Users Group.
 "If it's true, then we'll be able to spread OS/2 across more
 stations," said an information technology group leader from a local
 corporation.
 Support for C-2 level security and symmetric multiprocessing will be
 available optionally, IBM said.
 During the briefing, David Barnes, IBM's OS/2 evangelist, promised
 3-D effects and more color instead of "that neutral, soothing but
 dog-ugly interface."
 Attendees were impressed by demonstrations of OS/2's multithreaded,
 preemptive multitasking capabilities.
 "This is vital for clients.  OS/2 gives every DOS and (Microsoft
 Corp.) Windows application multiple threads so they won't get
 dropped when you extend them across the network."
 That was the case with a reporting system developed for Plano,
 Texas-based Frito-Lay Inc., according to Jerald Evans, vice
 president of Renaissance Information Technology Inc., Grapevine,
 Texas.  "We could juggle all the data retrieval only under OS/2."
 In the future, many users will be able to build their own
 applications by assembling objects that fetch data from any source
 in a transparent network, IBM's Giangarra said.  -- Phil Longstaff,
 Motorola Codex, Mississauga Ontario