when John Barrowman called and invitedme up here this is indeed the first timethat I've appeared in public without theshield of the newsprint around me sinceI agreed to the ridiculous job ofwriting about computers in a dailynewspaper and John Berman called and hesaid we'd like you to introduce thepeople who are going to be doing thedemonstrations for Windows NT and os/2and he likened it to a World WrestlingFederation match so the people down infront you may be splattered with bloodby the end of this but but it should bevery interesting this this is indeed asJohn said your this is history here whenthe next century dawns you may notactually have Windows NT or os/2specifically on your machine but it'sgoing to be something like it because32-bit operating system it exactly to beWindows NT you know as to but but it'sgoing to be it's going to be 32 or 64 or120 i'm een it's only going to getbigger it's only going to get morepowerful and and it's only going to getfriendlier the interesting thing is whathas happened here has changed thesecompanies at Comdex you had Bill Gatesin a suit and you had Jim Cannavino in ared sports shirt and I noticed tonightthe Microsoft guys are in suits and tiesand the guy who's going to demonstrateos/2 isn't a red sports shirtanytime you can get IBM out of thosewhite shirts at any rate this is this isan important night and this is a glimpseinto the future and watch very carefullybecause I know some of you people hereare going to be making decisions as towhat kind of as to which way you'regoing to go and you're going to launchyour company off on a direction that'sthat is toward the 21st century thefirst person right who won the corn tossand who will be going to the mat firstis Doug Davis of Microsoft he'll bedemonstrating Windows NT and we havewith IBM Dave Barnes looking natty andmaroon over here and sit back relax andenjoy it as Clayton Williams said andand I'm sure and I'm sure that this isgoing to be a lot of fun thank youyeah at least I don't have a blue suiton that's that's one thing good about itmy name is Doug Davis I've been withMicrosoft for the last three years now Iused to sell os/2 now I sell windows andWindows NT we're going to talk aboutstart off the presentation I'm going totalk about what's going on with WindowsTNT where it is today hopefully we'llget down in some of the architecturalaspects of Windows NT you'll see why wefeel it's a superior product to otheroperating systems on the market and lastwe'll get into a demo I can't see me athands but I can see a lot of how manypeople are out there running Windows 3 1or Windows today a lot of people ok howmany people got there bill gates weddinginvitation ok but I broken a rulealready I'm sorry uh last Monday the24th Bill Gates announced Windows NTaccom decks I was a very low keyannouncement will simulcast to about 50cities for Microsoft anyway that'spretty big event and the presentation hedid was very low-key it wasn't a lot ofglitz what any dancers any song song oranything like that but he should thepurpose of the presentation would showthe power of NT and show that that themarket has been needing something likethat I know you've probably seen thisarticle in the and some of the traderags recentlyempty fortunately has generated a lot ofinterest even though it was anunannounced product it's a lot of ourcompetitors had started positioningagainst NT before they're released andthis articles been running for quite awhile they're not their only competitorthough that's got an T in mind Sun isalso with their Sun select productfocuses on NT a lot of people aregetting microsoft credit for bringingthe rest of the industry together tocreate some standards I don't knowwhether that's out of fear survival I'mnot sure one person or one company justcan't deliver an operating system makeit successful it has to be a combinationof a lot of things you have to depend onsoftware developers you have to havesolution providers or people who deliversolutions in large corporate customersof course you have to have a companythat has the vision to do it and youalso have to have hardware vendors andthey all have to work together and wekind of feel that Windows NT makes allthe puzzles fit together puzzle piecesfit together from a Microsoftperspective you'll see a lot of thingsin the press about where NT ispositioned but from just a marketingstandpoint and where we feel it's goingessentially we feel it's the mostpowerful client server a desktop orserver on the market today on the marketthat's announced product well it willget to that it's only one piece of afamily though I mean there were a lot ofpeople that are running when there'sthree one today a lot of people stilluse das but but essentially Windows NTit fills out a family of operatingsystems we start off with the low endyou can run Windows today on pin systemslaptop systems as we move up the chainof hardware you see we go to Intel basedworkstations that involves two riskbased workstations and eventuallysymmetric multiprocessing super serversand the intention from Microsoft is tohave an operating system that runs onall of those environments so that from auser perspective from a developmentperspective you have a common interfaceyou have common API set and you have allthe common things that make it easy todevelop and deliver on any of thoseplatforms now let's talk about theWindows NT 2 architecture it's a it wasdesigned by David Cutler essentially aDavid Cutler was the father or chiefarchitect for VMs for Dec and when hecame to Microsoft in 1980 a his missionwas to build the most powerful PCoperating system now that was os/2 whenhe came and a lot of people forget thatwhen when we first went into thisproject the whole operating system hasexisted today was os/2 3.0 and I canpull back slides from way back then andsee that the same feature set that's inWindows NT today was in os/2 3.0 featureset but essentially it's a modular andlayered architecture and we're doing alittle more detail on that itsclient-server in its implementation andyou'll see how that applies in a secondto its portable very important as wemove through enterprise architecturesand and get into new advances in chiptechnologies that you able to port youroperating system easily easy as hardwarevendors come up with new technologieswhen in doesn't when when in the WindowsNT will be released it will run on theIntel 43 to 646 Pentium architectures itwill also run on the mips r4000 familyof processors and the dec alpha familyof processors so NT will be an operatingsystem that spans multiple processorsand it's also was designed from theground up to be symmetricmultiprocessing and essentially whatthat is for the user is the ability tothrow in a new processor into theirmachine and get linear performanceincreases so that if I determine thatI'm CPU bound if my machine supports itI put another processor in that machineand lo and behold my machine gets fasternow this is real important when we'retalking about large computing andenterprise environments where I needscalabilityto where I can deliver a solution andthen as I outgrow that solution I don'tnecessarily my system is not outgrown Iadd processors and memory to it now as abase component of the entityarchitecture are protected subsystemsnow there's two different types ofprotected subsystems in NT one of thoseis environmental subsystems and that'swhere we have the windows 32 programmingenvironment we have the DOS programmingenvironment where you can run dossedapplications you can also run Windows16-bit applications you can run POSIXone based applications you can also runcharacter based iOS to character basedapplications and those are the os/216-bit applications now the purpose ofthe os/2 subsystem is essentially togive users the ability to our time sothat they can take their OS to serverbased applications and move those to NTover time what we found in a lot of os/2development was server based and therewere a lot of client-server applicationsdeveloped under os/2 so we needed asubsystem that would allow the users tomove and migrate to a high-end operatingsystem and the last one is a integralsecurity security is very important tothe base product and is essentially notsomething that was bolted in orarchitected in it was architected fromthe ground up to be C to secure and whatthat is is a government specification itsets a security level now here's agraphical view of the NT architectureand let me just take it from across thetop you have your os/2 16-bitapplications very positive Kate it's aPOSIX applications the windows 32 ms-dosand windows 16 and these all run andwhat's referred to as user mode thereare two modes and NT used I know a lotof people have ever heard of six bringzero vs. ring three for example thatarchitecture doesn't exist in risk basedprocessors everything is divided intotwo pieces either youare are the colonel or privilege modeall subsystems and applications run andwhat's referred to as the user mode andas we move down the colonel side ofthings we can see that the hardware isat the very bottom we have this littlepiece of code here called how it's agood choice I know it really wasn'tmeant to do that but it's referred to asthe hardware abstraction layer and whatthat does is isolates NT from anyhardware specific components for examplethere's no standard today in the PCindustry on delivering multi processingmachines if you talk to ast compact DellWyse all these people they're deliveringmulti processing systems they're notdesigning them exactly the same it's nota golden age of PC compatibility that weonce realized so we needed a softwareisolation layer that we could isolatethose machines from the operating systemand run NT on those very seamlessly andthat's where the hardware abstractionlayer came from the kernel the big piecedown here the kernel in int only 40kbelieve it or not the the use of memoryNT is mainly to run a protected modesubsystems and some of the other cachingmechanisms but the kernel is very smallfor chisholm microkernel you havedifferent subsystems on top differentobject layers on top of that I'm notgoing to detail on each one of them butwe have caches in a process manager andessentially the i/o systems and thenetwork device drivers about that thesystem itself contains about 4 millionlines of code the kernel itself I saidis 40k a 95 percent of it is written inC and only 5% of it's written inassembler that makes it extremely easyto port to different architectures nowwe talked about symmetricmultiprocessing and what that means wellI'm going to look at this is a sampleapplication you could have pulled thisout of any UNIX vendors symmetricmultiprocessing that's really where yousymmetric multiprocessing started butyou have a process that is essentiallybound to each CPU in the machineand that's and that can be veryhigh-performance but it there are someproblems with it first of all everybodycommunicates to the shared memory whichis not the most efficient way to do itthe application essentially has to playoperating system it has to understandwhen things are coming into focus comingout of focus there's a lot of overheadthat people have to build into theirapplications to make them multiprocessing aware well within the WindowsNT we can take a different approach andlet's just talk about one of theproducts from Microsoft that sequelserver for NT in that thing we have inthat program we only have essentiallyone process and we break them intomultiple threads or are smallerprocesses and we let the operatingsystem handle the scheduling of thoseprocesses across the different CPUsthat's a lot more efficient we let theoperating system handle it there's not alot of complexity that we have to buildinto our code it's essentially allhandled by the operating system now wefeel that NT is a powerful platform forbuilding solutions now there's a it's areliable architecture a poorly behavedapplication cannot crash the system andwe talked about how the application andtheir subsystems run the user mode at notime does an application in Windows NTlink into any system memory somethingthat other operating systems will letyou do that can't happen any Windows NTso an application cannot crash thesystem we have D synchronized inputqueues this is very important it soundsvery technical but what essentially itmeans is that I'm not limited by whatwhatever tasks I'm doing to go doanother operation right now in os/2 andwindows if I clicked on the file managerto do a drive search I wait to do adrive search because essentially thesystem is processing input Windows andos/2 today share what's referred to as asingle message queue and what that meansis that all the messages that are passedthrough the system pass through oneplace an NT every applicationhas her own unique queue so that cannothappen we talked about security a littlebit it's integrated into the system itwas architected in and we have upssupport that's built into the productand last we have we support asynchronousi/o which is a really high speed way ofwriting code the file system at NT isnew we had to develop a new system forone reason that being that to be secureand to be a government level securitythe so file systems that are out theretoday don't support the kind of accesscontrol the structures that you need fora high in operating system will supportvery large Diskin filesI think they've calculated that NT willsupport volumes up to 184 terabytesnow that's a volume size and you canhave multiple volumes in the system so Idon't think we're going to be runningout of file size limitations for a longtimewe have long filenames and we also oughtto generate 8.3 names which is very veryuseful if you have users that areaccessing NT as a server if they're on adas machine they see their old 8.3 nameyou can still use a long file name andthe file names are are linked togetherwe have Unicode support which is veryimportant for international market we dotransaction logging for quick recoverywhat this does is if the file systemever goes down you have to reboot todayyou you essentially wait on check diskto check your file system see if it'sokay well imagine running check disk on184 terabyte volume size we would behere for a very very long time waitingLynette to complete so with transactionrecording of the processes that takeplace in the file system we can recoververy large volumes in seconds instead ofhours and lasts the file system itselfis built for 64-bit access all fileoffsets are 64-bit so that's why we getsuch a large size out of the file systemand now preserves your existinginvestment in ms-dos applications youcan run your ms-dos applications as itexists today you can run multiple ms-dosapplications we'll show you that duringthe demo anything this ms-dos 5compatible will operate in thisenvironment you can do full screen orwindow taxes up to you just like inWindows and you can also copy and pasteto the clipboard very seamless you canpreserve your investment in Windowsapplications by running your existing16-bit applications essentially you cancopy/paste dde olá between 16-bit and32-bit applications the windows 3-1 appsrun as they're designed to and that's torun in in the same memory addressWindows NT applications are 32-bitapplications running they're a separatememory address when the 16-bitapplications run in a single addressspace performance is comparable orcomparable to Windows 3.1 user will notnotice the difference between running aWindows application under NT are runningit under Windows 31 and last it's binarycompatible you can run your Windows16-bit applications on either the Intelplatforms are any of the risk basedplatforms yes yes enhance mode 32-bitapplications for Windows NT and windows3.1 as part of the Developers Conferencelast July we released a specificationknown as Windows 32 S which is a subsetthe subset of the windows 32 bit API settoday you can under windows NT you canrun a Windows 32 bit S application underin Windows NT as a native 32-bitapplication or run it as a 16-bit our32-bit application under Windows 16 theway this is accomplished is throughrunning virtual device drivers on top ofWindows 3-1 that's something that always- cannot do todayWindows NT has built-in 3.1 has built-innetworking essentially in a base NT boxyou have an unlimited file and printserver illness port an unlimited numberof user connections however meaning youfeel that you will let on your machinein a networked environment it's protocolindependent you can run IP x tcp/ip netblue OSI any protocol you select thethree protocols in the product will be anet booyah or a net BioSpace protocolTCP IP and DLC on the data link controlprotocol used to do 3270 accessit's a superset of workgroup for WindowsI know a lot of you were here probablyin February I guess it was when we didthe demo of Windows workgroup it has thesame features net dde chat all that'sbuilt into it final print easy file andprinter sharing for the user and themail and schedule plus are asapplications is all are also built intothe system we have an OS FDC ecompatible RPC now that's a lot ofletters let me tell you what that meansos F is a is a stand as a as a bodyworking on delivering of an operatingsystem they have a remote procedure callmechanism which allows two machines totalk to each other and it's referred toas a remote procedure call all of theremote procedure calls and NT are DCEcompliant what that really means is thatfrom another DCE environment whateverthat might be to an NT environment wecan share information our connecteddatabases are write distributedapplications its network independent andit's protocol independent and reallysimplifies your development now as faras connectivity to UNIX environments wesupport POSIX dot one which is aprogramming it's a governmentprogramming standard we do X Windowsemulation this was demonstrated atWindows worldlast month we also support Windowssockets and RPC mechanisms as far asnetwork integration I stated alreadythat tcp/ip is included in the boxhave an svr for compatible streamsenvironment and NFS our network filesystem as it's referred to is alsoavailable from NT from a third party nowWindows NT was built more for just inusers it was built friend manageabilityvery important in large computingenvironments will support both net viewand SNMP which are mainframe or UNIXbased consoles to do network managementright out of the boxwill we have utilities and NT that arealready meant for remote management forexample as a remote administrator I canchange the configuration of an NTmachine I can limit a user's options onan empty machine to where they can't canchange this configuration I can monitorits performance I can do remote backupseverything that I would think of doingat the desktop as a land administratoror network operator I can do remotelynow using Windows NT I already said wesupport net view and SNMP as far as netwith you reporting you can map any NTgenerated event which is anything thathappens in the system can generate a netview alert so that from a host basedsystem you can submit commands to NTsystems or take alerts to NT systems asfar as SNMP will support the standardarchitectures for Lib 1 and mid 2 andit's all extensible now there's aseparate product from the base productfor NT and it's referred to as NTadvanced services we have centralizedadministration so that you have one yearuser and count and logon throughout yourenterprise we have a remote accessserver that's included in the productthis gives you the ability to dial-upasynchronously and connects an NTmachine as if you were connected to thenetworkwe support McIntosh's as clients forthis environment and we've also added infor hands fault tolerance in thisproduct will support file replicationdis marrying dis duplexing and raid 5 insoftware sono need to buy specialized hardware todo things like dis striping and disstriping with parity that can all bedone in software now in NT as far aspricing goes on NT the NT full packageproduct is for 95 upgrade from das orWindows or os/2 is to 95 the AdvancedServer product not there's some thingsto consider here like having the anunlimited file and print server rolewindows and Novell into one box andessentially try to figure out what thatwould costWindows NT advanced server product is -9 29.95 and an introductory price rightnow is 14.95 and of course the upgradefrom the land manager is 595 now I putthis little chart together when itinitially they asked me to do thispresentation I said great I get to goshow Windows NT 2 how a PC and they saidwell IBM's gonna be there with os/2 andI'm like why I didn't understand thatquestion you know I didn't say one thingI forgot I forgot to bring it up to meyou might see the Borg the Borg is herecover on the IBM magazine who's the Borgin this instance I couldn't figure thatout for some reason anyway I kind ofbreak this down a little bit have alittle fun here between Windows NT andos/2 2.1 now Microsoft feels it to be avery advanced desktop operating systemthere's certain requirements that youhave to fill of course IBM and os/2 andwindows NT satisfy the majority of thesethose being run dos applications runWindows 16-bit applications run 32-bitGUI applications you can also run POSIXapplications in Windows NT you cannot dothat today in os/2 as far as pre-emptivemultitasking yes multi-threading for32-bit applications us separate addressbase for applications yesseparate message queues for applicationsthat's what I talked about earlier aboutdecentdo synchronous asynchronous act inputqueues we do it they don'twe're portable to risk that they're notrunning on risks right now they may demoit up here I hope I'd like to see it youhave symmetric multiprocessing supportc2 level security built-in file andprinter sharing yes there no built-inemail and scheduling yet has to know dotbuilt-in remote administration tools youhas to know they do do good SNA supportso do we and tcp/ip is a protocolincluded yes and no again now let's talkabout some of the other things going onwith Windows NT Microsoft just announcedthat we're in the middle of a researchproject with several leading computeruniversities and giving them the WindowsNT source code those being brownCarnegie MIT California BerkeleyUniversity of Washington some of thestandard research institutes the purposehere is to open up in T to theseenvironments and let people add value toit without necessarily creating newoperating systems something thathappened to UNIX to hope that we canavoid now where do we go from herewell for those of you running Windowsthat don't upgrade to Windows NT I doubtthat probably a few of you out there butanyway there'll be a version of Windowsin the future and it's referred to asChicago in the press anyway that's thecode name internally in Microsoft and ofcourse Windows NT users will move to aproduct referred to as Cairo and I wantto concentrate on that product for asecond now what do we get to in thisenvironment well we're a long way fromthere right now we're probably at 2years I'm seeing this product in themarket we'll probably go into betasometime late this year but essentiallythe things that we add are our thingsour services on top of a good foundationwe have a good Multi multi sorrymicrokernel architecture are already inplace we have the symmetricmultiprocessing and security already inplace so what do we add on to that wellwe add things like an object-orientedfile system to where file namesessentially become irrelevant in thisenvironment you store data and youretrieve data you do context instantinstances and rich indexing so that Ican search for all documents on my harddrive that had the the word view in itor at or the whatever it's all indexedin context index we also add things likeremote activation and replication theseare really get into a high-endobject-oriented type of system we haddistributed management and security thisbeing based on a lot of the work done byMIT having did with Kerberos and lastwere based on Ola 2.0 and Windows 32well that pretty much wraps up my partof the presentation now we're gonna getto a little bit of the demo this isgiving an example of what I'm runninghere I have a compact 46 C it's a 66 46processor the first thing you'll noticethat windows prompts me for a logonevery user in the system has to have anaccount can you not hear mebaby well anyway the first thing you'llnotice that the user has to log onwhenever I've gone away from the systemit will ask me to reinitiate the logonsequence which is ultra can control thelead every time you go to the systemyou'll see it all controlled deletepiece to it and I have to enter apassword and Joe left me the password isgee I think it istryokay third time's a charmit's that case-sensitive pastoral linefirst thing I kind of open up firstthing you'll notice is the cursor if youlook real close with the person we'veadded something 2nt it's referred to asanimated cursors and what I'd like to dois change it to my favorite animatedcursor will do brows oops and we havethe horse as the cursor Ithe other big thing that's blurring andNT is it it looks just like windows 3one I did a demo did the demo at theConvention Center last February's to meit's very hard to demo NT because I meana majority of people out there arerunning Windows today and I can tell youthat it has a GUI interface and it hasdrag-and-drop and lets you setup programgroups but you know all thatit's just windows 3-1 some of the thingsthat are unique about NT talk about forexample of the file system the filesystem will support long filenames andas you can notice in the bottom dialoguehere I have long directory names andlong file names I can do things thanempty that in the background that Iprobably couldn't have done beforespeaking for example I'll do a search ofdirectory I'll do it whoopsthe horse kind of gets away from yousometimes coming after watching okaywe'll do a search and we'll search allfiles and all directories and that'sgoing on of course I can now switch backand do something else if I want to justgive you an idea now I can open up thecommand pot or on a command works fine Ican go back to my search but I'm nowsearch on all directories so that wasonly really meant to demonstrate some ofthe multi processing aspects of Amentiand the fact that you can switch awayfrom tasks you're no longer io bound byanything that you do in the system someof the other things in this file systemfor example on the NTFS volume which isthe volume there's a new button acrossthe top on the toolbar it's where thehorse is galloping right now and that'dbe being a key or security aspect thisgives you the ability you know directorokay let me select a file here click onthe key and now I can set securityprivileges down to the file level I canchange that to where I can get accessfor full control I can give people somespecial accesses that I've set up whichmay be some multiple of these changeaccess or just read access if I neededtoanother thing you'll notice aboutWindows NT as far as the the interfaceinterface goes to dos boxes we talkedabout that already we shrink this downget that horse with them in shapethere's a there's a whole list ofperformance monitoring tools here that'swhere I can monitor CPU performance I'mdoing that already in one of those rightnow I'm measuring the the processorutilization on this machine NT is verywhen I talked about remote admin toolsfor example you can see the dialoguethat has slash slash Joeunderscore 46 well that's extensible ifI was on a network I can monitor someoneelse's machine our monitor my boss'smachine if I want see if you really getany work done or not I will do done theprint manager it's the same in same asin Windows workgroup some of the uniquethings about Windows NT printing you donot have to have local printer driversloaded locally for example the onlyperson on your network that has to havethe printer driver is the machine that'sconnected to that network printerwhether it be over the networkwhatever the machine is the spooling thejobs essentially that's the only machinethat has to have the printer devicedriver now this is very very nice we dowe use remote procedure calls andsending meta files to the servermachines so that if you ever update theprinter driver you only have to updateit in one place people can connect theprinters using long filenames and nothave to worry about what my printerdriver is I can throw a new printer inthere throw a new memory in it throw anew type of cartridge in it and thesystem can automatically take advantageof that by just upgrading the printerdriver in one placedas command prompt is about the samethere's built-in sound support and whatis NT if we were to go back to controlpanel here's where I changed the cursorsif you'll notice when the just controlpanel aspects all configuration optionsare changed through control panelthere's no such thing as that can fixthis on auto exact an NT everything isstored in a binary database if you evermess your configuration up which I knowthat some people do and I always had tocarry around a das boot disk in case I'dmucked with my system well NT willremember your last known goodconfiguration and will boot to thatconfiguration so that if I go in andmuck with them machines configuration Iblow it away it won't boot it'll come upand says say that I've detected a badconfiguration I'mgoing back to your last known good oneand loading that one which is veryconvenient in magical sound works greatI it I'm not going to blow you away onthe sound here but the whole thing isthat for those people that are familiarwith windows 3-1 you'll be barelyfamiliar with Windows NT you'll be ableto take advantage of the power of thesystem from day one there's no learningcurve on user interface everything thatyou want to do is right there in frontof you it's just an extension of thewindows family and with that I'd like toreally thank you for your timeso this was a good one hopefullyokay test one two three four test onetwoI think I'm ready here let's see whichmicrophone I'm working off this one hereand I need to switch a button and we'reon let's see I need to go to yeah yeahI'll say yeah yeah now and yes that's mypassword now I have to my name is DavidBarnes let me start out by saying I likewearing these kind of clothes okay Ialso have to say more than once in thelast few weeks I've had people say thatMicrosoft is getting green more like IBMused to be and IBM is getting to be morelike Microsoft used to be I like thattoo now a couple other things before Ieven start first of all I have nobullets this is pure demonstration it'sall code that you can buy today it'sstraight clap okay every application I'mgonna show you you can buy today beforeI get into that though I got to reallysay one big thing a couple of years agothe very first PC users group I everpresented to was y'all I can say thatcuz I'm in Texas right since that time Ihave made it a habit that's pretty muchwhat I do I will tell you the onlyreason that OS 22.1 is alive today isbecause of users groups team os/2 andgrassroots people it is certainly notbecause of IBM's incredible marketingskills okayyeahthe users wouldn't let the product dieand that's what it comes down to andI'll tell you that I am like you I am auser I'm not an architect I spent a fewyears in the field with an oscilloscopeI finished sort of spent a few years asa Nessy as a PSR I used to spend I wesome people say in the trenches theyhaven't been there it's in the cubiclesokay I've been in the cubicles in theranks that's where I want to approachthe use of this product from now OS 22.1I'm going to show you right now this isthe real shrink-wrap level code and thatis the workplace shell in front of OS 2now if you say the workplace shelldidn't IBM used to have the presentationmanager this is the presentation managernothing has changed as far as that ifyou're right programs - os/2 you'restill right using the PM api is none ofthat's changed the workplace shell isthe way I interact with it it is anobject-oriented user interfaceobject-oriented in a couple of thingsone everything on the screen is anobject all objects are acted upon thesame way for example if I click with theleft mouse button I select an object ifI click with the right mouse button Iget a pop-up menu that is true for everyobject without exception down here is myprinter let right mouse button pop-upmenu even my desktop is an object it hasa pop-up menu you can create your ownmenu items for those things you want toget to quickly and it's very quick andeasy to create those menu items as I goalong in the workplace shell look forthat you'll see the pop-up menus all thetime one of the things that's alwaysthere is help the online help is good inos/2 2.1 is significantly better than2.0 as far as its online help it isreally good as I go along also I reallyhave to point this out this is importantthe workplace show is a job in os/2 wecall them a process it runs in its ownaddress space but as a job it is wellthreaded threads are real important tounderstand now when I say it's a job itmeans I don't if you want to start upos/2 and what I call ugly mode C colonbackslash you can go in seriously yougoing to you can fix this change theline where it says p.m. she'll just saycmd.exe that's always 2's commandprocessor and you come up C colonbackslash and when you want to launchthe workplace shell type in PM shell andit launches it it's a very tighteninga job but it's just a job as a jobthough it is threaded and you have doneit we've been talking about threads herethreads are real important to understandbasic programming 101 I write lines ofcode and I execute them sequentially heyI want to do something differentI'll do perhaps a branch return i branchover to a subroutine execute those linesof code come back to my main threadcontinue executing one single thread ofexecution that is Doss that's dasWindows that's even the Macintosh systemseven does not have threads in os/2 whenyou launch an application with threadsI'm working in my process I want to dosomething different I launch a thread togo off and work it continues to work asthis thread continues to work I can runup to 4096 concurrent threads what thismeans is important is that when I go andwork with the workplace shell look forthe hourglass watch for the hourglasswhile I go off and work you won't see itbecause I spend I spin off a thread togo and do those functions in thebackgroundI'll show you threads as I go along butI want to point out we're talking about32 bit and 32 bits important but I'lltell you that I will take a wellthreaded 16 bit application over a nonthreaded 32-bit application anytime theway we used to measure response time onthe mainframes when I hit enter on adumb terminal II went up through topanother host came back when my keyboardunlockedthat was response time because I can goback and work measure response time hereand it pops back on the screen I have mycursor back immediately because I spawna thread to go do that and all of thesenew machines can handle it32 bits important but multiple threadsare more important now excuse me I'm nota magician but I do want to grab a glassof water underneath here now now I'mgoing to go off and do some work withwork by shell how many people out therealways two users yeah yes hey I say yesbecause a couple of years ago I nevereven asked okay nowI'm gonna go ahead and click one of thethings that's new on two point one iswhen I click on pardon me okay don'tfall okay now one of the things that uhthat's new here from the backdrop when Isay well I can launch the system set updirectly from my backdrop menu one ofthe things I'm gonna do is just quicklyshow you selectively install some of thenew hardware support that's in os/2 thisis real important because os/2 2.0didn't have it some of the things arecd-rom devices now from CD technologyhitachi IBM cd-rom one and two neck thenew NEC multi spin Panasonic pioneerSony textile Toshiba and of course thereis the infamous other that's probablythe one you have right now also scuzzydevice support from Adaptec DPT futuredomain IBM's eighteen boss and microchannel bus I'll tell you that if you goout on CompuServe there are drivers outthere for the sound blaster cd-rom foros/2 the one that hooks on the externalsound blaster the Mitsumi I think it'spronounced oom it's about a hundred andsome dollars cd-rom device there's adriver DAC the stereo liquidator there'sa cd-rom driver right hey this is goodfor us it really is the idea is is thatyes we sell hardware is the IBMcorporation but my objective is to getos/2 to run on as many machines aspossible and that's what we plan ondoing other things that are in here thatare new PCMCIA support for the PCMCIAand the portable machines as well asadvanced power management okaynow the biggest thing out of all of thisis that now I can have my os/2 devicesand they can be non IBM devices and andthat's terrific oh by the way I let youknow I got a 4633 here I've got 16megabyte of memory because I get it freeandI'll tell you that I could do this demoin eight and you would be duly impressedyou really would it is very impressivein 8 OS two's minimum on the side of thebox that says for David Barnes says 6 isthe minimum I like 8 it's a nice sweetspot and everybody's pretty happy to amegabyte okay now one of them oh there'salways two users here you're gonna likethis let's go ahead and take somethinglet me take this application folder hereI'm gonna open up the settings anybodywant to go through the steps require tochange an icon in OS 2 no I don't eitherright look how you do it now you grab anicon you drag it you drop it and itassumes the icon yeah and it can do thatand it doesn't have to be an eye contactnow let me show you something else hereI'm gonna open up my system folder openup my drives folder open up my II drivefolder notice my cursor by the way thegentleman up here before me told methat's impossible what I just did didyou see an hourglass I didn't see anhourglass he said when we opened ourdrives folders that the system isunavailable hasn't happened to me and Iuse it about 12 hours a day seven days aweek so I'm not sure what he meant bythat now when I go up here and I'll showyou well here's another example let'sopen up my icons but while I'm openingup my icons I'll close this down and goover and close this down my icons areopening right now what I just showed youwas multiple threads also what he justsaid can't happen but I just showed youmultiple threads you never saw thehourglass right I could also do the samething right here I could just take iconsand go ahead and do the associates fromthat way what I really wanted to showyou is notice how quickly it popped upit's much much much faster than os/2 2.0but let's go on and get someapplications going here the first thingI want to do is I'm going to start adost application called Popeye it's aflick file actually it's a fly file it'sit takes a second to load cuz it goesinto about two megabyte of it Doss eggmemory right now Popeye if I do an allhome I put it in full screen here theprojector has to catch up alt home I putit back in a window that's true for anydost application under os/2 now why do Ishow this I do like it that's one goodreason but one of the other reasons Ishow it is because he can't okay emptycan't do this you notice he said textapplications in a window empty can't putgraphics applications in a window DOSgraphics applications in a windowI'm sorry your bullet said text in yourtech conference I went to said text okaywell we're gonna have a Q&A afterwardswe'll talk about it then okay let me letme let me say it this way if you getWindows magazine it's the one on theshelf this month there is a review of NTand os/2 in the magazine and it's by thethe managing editor of Windows magazinehe's the news editor and his and I quotesays that OS choose dos support flat-outkicks and tease but quote that is aquote and his other quote was that Oh LMcheese da support is reminiscent of thatof os/2 one point X's DOS compatibilitybox which we all know was the contemptability box right yeah okay now sohere's my dost application but whilePopeye is running CDOT os/2 news laterI'm launching an application now I'mlaunching an application you see myhourglass no do you see Popeye skip abeat no I'm launching a 32-bit OS toapplicationthis is shrink-wrap code this is bypurchasable code right now this isdescribed word processor Popeyecontinues to run in the background whatI did is I spawned a virtual 86processor in the chip and Popeye sitswithin that virtual 86 processor runs inthe chip now by the way it's gonna takea second to put this document on thescreen because the border of this thingis about 1.2 megabyte so I go ahead andput the document up on the screen andagain this is described word processor Ihave a me Pro os/2 on here that's notthat's not golden code yet so I'm notgoing to show it I also had WordPerfectfor os/25.2 on here but that's not golden againso I won't show it I'm only gonna showyou code you can by now Popeye sittingout there in a window what I want to dohere is I'm gonna go ahead put my cursorhere do a mark grab the data on thescreen it's a little difficult to seenow we stopped Popeye right no thiscould be a communications programwhen I select copy look where Popeyes atit's been running the whole timeos/2 doesn't stop your dass programs youcould have been doing a 9600 baud filetransfer it doesn't want to stop it itonly froze the frame for me yes you canrun 9600 baud das file transfers in thebackground while you go and work I do itall the time under os/2 worksterrifically I got some of our owninternal da stuff that we usefile transfers go off and work now thatsits out in my clipboard in OS 2 I'mgonna go back over here go into my wordprocessor put my cursor about right heredo an edit and a pace and there's acotton apace from a daus piece ofshareware into a 32-bit OS 2 applicationnow that is still in my clipboard if Iwanted to go into a meat Pro Windowsversion and paste itbyamba puts it in there if I want to goand put it into other applications theclipboard is common between dass windowsand os/2 applications here so I canshare that data with another dassapplication windows application os/2application now I want to show you howthis is pretty neat I clicked on os/2newsletter and that's the name of myfile now wait a minute file names 8characters dot three characters rightand directory names eight characters andwhy is that anywaywhy to be compatible with CPM of courseabsolutely yeah when doss was inventedby a guy named tim paterson when timinvented dashe wrote the file system to becompatible with CPM control program formicro processors 8 character dot 3character anybody and I know there's oldCPM users out there I know there are andby the way yeah and by the way if youwant to run CPM and a DOSBox and os/2 itworks just fine I tested it ok you thinkI'm a geek don't you it works it reallydoesso now wait a minute now this is os/2newsletter we blew by that I use thehormons file system my filenames up to254 characters my directory names up to254 charactersoh but wait a minute how did I associatethis with the program because in thewindows world we say like if I click ona dot wk1 I launch Lotus or if I clickon a CDR a launch CorelDraw but my wordmy file here could be os/2 newsletterthat I created in 1989 when I firstmoved down to Boca Raton Florida andstarted working on it 254 characters itwould be sort of silly to put a dot wk3at the end of that wouldn't itokay now so what do we do at OS - it'sobject-oriented if I open up thesettings here you'll notice what's my mycurrent data typeit's a described document it is anobject - OS - when describe installs itsays os/2 you're an object-orientedoperating system with an object-orienteduser interface I will create a newobject type in the system calleddescribe document anybody ever clicks onit launch me so I don't associate byextensions it's an object type there isno object technology like that NNT or isthere in the windows world today okayand I'll show you there's Lotus 1-2-3for os/2 when you install it it adds theobject type in fact I'll show you ifyou've got dumb hey now I gotta tell youthere's some people iBM is out there andthey have stuff to give away and theysaid man the logistics of giving thisstuff away and so I said I'll tell youwhat we did this the last time I was atthe hell PC users group when I say maybeI'll show you and you say show me Davethey throw trinkets and trash ok can wedo that yeah surely ok now I only saytrinkets and trash because we have a lotof it if you don't have any it's veryvaluable merchandise so you say Dave doyou want to see this yes give them stuffok now here's ayeah oh they want it bad they want tobet hey I got a few minutes to go holdoff here now what I'm doing right now isI'm watching another I'm watchinganother application hereI'm watching my relish 32-bitcalendaring facility okay back off for asecond guys I got work to do okay we'lldo that again in a couple minutes how'sthat we're gonna do that again in acouple minutesnow I got my calendaring facility here Iwant to show you a function of this nownotice that when I launched it did youever see the hourglass no I had mycursor the whole time when I say I wantto schedule a meeting let's say I wantto schedule a meeting today at somethinglike let's do this again let's put ameeting over here at two o'clock and Isay I want the meeting from here to hereand here's some information about themeeting at cetera et ceteraI select okay and it puts the meetingthere it says it starts before thecurrent time that's okay I don't plan ongoing there anyway now here's anotherone that it's reminded me of the otherday here's my favorite feature defer itsays tell win and I can say I wanted outtill then it select okay now that'sbefore current time as well so I just goahead and say cancel erase that one as amatter of fact erase know completely yesnow I got the note sitting there if Ihad this Lotus one toothI'm sorry amia Pro for os/2 here I wantto put my calendar in my document I grabit I drag it and I drop it and I put itout on my desktop and it drags thecalendar in this case it puts thecalendar out on the desktop right thereit is there's my other one and let me goahead and say okay that's fine I knowabout the meeting if I drop this now Iput an object out on my desktop that'spretty neatwatch what I do I'm gonna click on theright mouse button notice that bottommenu item called CC mail it okayCC mail installs and os2 and says youknow your object-oriented in fact yourobject-oriented to the degree that I canreuse OS 2's class libraries isn't thatwhat object-oriented is all about reuseexisting code so through inheritanceI'll keep all of those menu items upthere but I will subclass the workplaceshell menu and anything that can be sentacross the network I will add CC mail itnow if I go down here I can't mail thisacross the network so when I click on itactually I just launched the commandprompt let me get that out of theredon't need it right now if I click onthis I don't have CC mail it becausethat can't be sent it only adds it toobjects they can be sent across thenetwork I go ahead and say I want to CCmail it and I launch CC mail now this isbeta code the golden code is availablefor sale I just haven't got it yetbecause I've been on the road and Ididn't want to download it so I launchedCC mail there's my CC mail statusindicator my inbox the cursor is backbecause I've detached from the systemmessage queue there's CC mail there'sthe information if I wanted to put in Iwanted to send it to somebody etceteraetc and if I wanted to send anythingelse I just drag it drop it and put iton there and it sends it off with the CCmail message that by the way isimpossible in Windows it's impossible inNT because there's no object-orientedaspect to go ahead subclass useworkplace shell items like that wellthere isn't a workplace show now let meshow you some more about this let me getrid of my status indicator herenow pop by still running let me launchoh here's one of my favoritesWordPerfect 5.1 I got WordPerfect 6 online here but I like the five point onefor this I'm launching it the projectorsgot to catch up because I changed videomodeslaunch a TSR and don't you love that Ionce said that that was ugly and Ireally know I should not have becausewell the product manager for WordPerfect5 1 was in the front row and told me Ishouldn't have I took it back in factiBM is that is a nice shade of blueisn't it yeahand he said to me says it came up laterhe said why didn't you show on the menusand I said use you have menus for twoyears I've been doing f5 and f7 did youknow if you click with the other mousebutton this product have menus I did notso I don't know how to use them yet letme do an f5 editor bring a document intohere now with alt home I go ahead andput it into a window here again theprojector has to catch up with me withthe system now by the way did you noticewhat I just did you know if you click onthis bar twice this for Windows 2 if youclick twice it puts it up to its fullsize click twice again it brings it backdown it's a little quicker than reachingover there so I click twice bring it upI'm gonna go here I'm gonna say markI'm gonna grab and Mark the text on thescreen here go back up to there and saycopy put that in my clipboard then I'mgonna go back over into my describeddocument here grab the describe documentput it into the foreground put my cursorright over in the upper left hand cornernow by the way that memory was paged outbecause it wasn't being used let mebring this up to about right here put mycursor about right there and do an editand a paste and there's a cut of pasteof text from a DOS app to an iOS tohappen again we can come from das to dasdas to Windows Windows to das Windows toOS to OS - to Windows dos os/2 well youget the pointok now that by the way still sits out myclipboard I could go ahead and take thatand put it out into Lotus 1-2-3 4 dotsif I wanted to now I got to show you I'mgonna go in with the menus for my dasprogram here you say show me dave didyou say thatso I'm gonna do show me now I'm gonna doa file go to dust anybody got the da sixout there okay and I can't poll theaudience I apologize okay most peopletell me how to da sticks they're getting620 630 K which is pretty darn good andthey're happy but then they loadingtheir land drivers and then they load itin their mouths drivers and their otherchairs and stuff and it takes it down Ihave all my land drivers loaded I haveall my drivers loaded out of 640 K herewhen I'm just doing a shell out ofWordPerfect in this box out of 640 K Ihave 753 not bad out of 640 huh not badnow how do we do that when we built thepit when we built the PC in Boca Ratonwe said it was not bosses fault we statsfrom 640k to a million bytes reservedfor system use as time went on we gave abig chunk to VGA graphics the way I useWordPerfect I don't use VGA graphics Itold os/2 to give it backOS two's dos settings are very fullfunction I clicked on one box it gaveall the VGA memory back to the dosboxany text application 753 K if you go outthere and read byte magazine this monthWindows magazine this month PC Magazinethis month they will tell you that os/2runs dos applications better thananything in the world period and I'lltell you in the past I was a desk viewfan quarter decks despi was the bestthere was and I still loved SPO but thisis betterit honestly is now I got to tell you oneof the piece one of the PC magazines oneof the PC Magazine said we blew itbecause we didn't give the capability ofdoing alt control delete to get rid of abad Dawsonno I'm sorry we came up with a newconcept it's called menuyes select close it says are you sureand it says yes I'll do the same thingwith Popeye here here's how I can goahead and kill the Popeye in the dotsession now I'll tell you that I'm notgoing to spend much time on the dausbetter than da stuff this is a the dausbetter than daus is pretty much a giventhing let me get rid of this down heredrop it on the shredder and by the waythat really doesn't shred it it onlyrecycles it nowpeople will actually say to me now watchwhile I open up the windows apps herelet me go and close down this windowhere multi-threading one was opening Iclosed the other multiple threads it'sreal important well people say to methey say David why do you want to rundas well because my father ran das andhis father before him and by god okaywe give you das well why do you want torun Windows because it's the only placeyou can get the Gary Larson far sidecalendar absolutely app now but that'snot for long because they're working ona 32-bit OS 2 version that includes anos/2 tip of the day yes now oh wait aminute tomorrow's the joke I think Iwant it let's go over to the fifth and Ilike this one it says well of course Idid in cold blood you idiot I'm areptile now so here's a Windows sessionwhat we did here is I created a virtual86 processor in the chip all intel chipsfrom the 386 sx up can do this in theprocessor i loaded a copy of docileorder to copy windows load in theapplication so we don't have to do muchconversion of the windows code now butwait a minute what about to display iton the screenwe cut a black hole in the video bufferso that we don't get away with anyunnecessary CPU cycles so we let theapplication go directly to it now as acompatibility test and purely acompatibility test oh actually thisisn't the one I wanted but I liked itanyhow a dinosaur cranial capacity nowas we go on let me mention a little bitmore about what's going on so I've gotthe Windows application running in itsown virtual DOS machine you'll like thenext one better you really will in factit's for the cat that's over there onthe other side of the room did I tellyou you can buy or let's do over thereat the door right now hundred dollarupgrade under dollar upgrade from DawsonI asked him what do you do to check tosee if they upgraded and if you know howto do adder command you can upgrade okaynow now this is actually the one that Iwanted to do for the for thecompatibility test this is Aunt Hilda'sflap cats now I'm not a cat lover butfor 15 years hahahafor 15 years my wife said honey can wehave a cat and I said no dear I'm not abig cat fan but then my two and a halfyear old blonde daughter said daddy canwe have a cat and I said why sure youcan honey watch the bottom of the screenthe application thinks it's on thewindow is desktop that's fine it's goingto throw the flap cat across go s to hisdesktop that doesn't matter we canhandle it no problem now I'm going totake this Windows application andminimize itI'm going to launch another windowssession another copy of Doss anothercopy of Windows another Windowsapplication in a separate virtualmachine now why do I want to do thatwell you don't want to if all yourapplications windows applications areperfectly behaved and they have neverfailed run them in the same session butif you've ever had one Windowsapplication take another one down youmight want to do it this waybecause this one is totally isolatedfrom the other they're protected fromeach other in separate virtual machinesnow I want to show you a couple ofthings we can support I'm gonna launch ame pro here this is the Windows versionof me Pro and I'll tell you for those ofyou that don't have os/2 I hate the factthat I have to reemphasize this but ourmarketing hasn't got the point acrossyou don't buy Windows it's on the os/2diskettes and you don't buy das it's onthe os/2 diskettes okay now it's wehaven't done a good job of lettingpeople know that now I'm gonna open up adocument here within this document I canshow you object linking and embeddingsee the hourglass sorry there's nothingI can do I'm in a Windows applicationnow it's single threadedhey I am NOT going to knock windowsapplications folks I like them as muchas you do I would rather have amulti-threaded os/2 application but Ilike these windows apps and I can runthem now what I'm gonna do here is I'mgonna go down a page I mean we all likethem because there's a lot of fun outhere one of the things an audio personthis sometimes blasts out we supportvideo for Windows how do you install itsame ways any Windows application youtype in setup so video for windows goesahead and the kiln it just needssomething else okay now I gotta tell youthis is an absolute ooh this is neatwhat if this hangs on me will you goback over to OS 2's presentation managerthe workplace shell now when I bring upthe workplace shell if I double click onhere close that down go back to my tasklist window s2 for hey I selected thatif you can select it in the workplaceshell it has a pop-up menu it says whodo you want to close it I say yes and itsays are you sure I say yes and I justkilled that Windows session but whatabout the far side calendar no it's in aseparate virtual machine they'reprotected from each other and by the wayall but empty fixes all that no itdoesn't empty runs all Windows 3applications in the same virtual bossmachine it can't do what I just showedyou it can't protect them from eachother ok not just that Windowsapplications if you're not familiar withmake do a thing called cooperativemultitasking anyone application can cantake over control of the of theenvironment nothing can stop it in OS 2those two virtual dos machines wepreemptively multitasked them so I canrun one in the background doingcommunications that one that had thevideo for Windows I can go ahead and dopixors type of tree I love it I run inthe background but it takes hours tocreate three dimensional rendering Ileave it in the background and go workI just hotkey out of there and go backover and work oh let's lighten the airhere here's one more this again is a catjoke but I love ityou've heard aardvarks well these areour dogsyeah I love Alan yeah yeah yeah okay wegot to do one more this is not this Idid this one already let me see if I canescape yes I like that I can escape outof it let me do one more and this wouldbe yeah I think this one here and it'snot cat-related oh yeah oh so that was agood one try it Hobbes just focus brainright where my finger is okay now how ohI love that I love that now I tell youon the way over here I read bitemagazine I read Windows magazine and Iread PC Magazine all three of them hadarticles stating that os/2 runs Windowsapplications as fast as native windowsand dos all three of that's not metalking that's them most people that areusing out there sing as faster fasternow I want to show you something withthe multimedia stuff there and againeverything I'm showing you this isshrink-wrap code you can do this bytoday I'm gonna launch the multimediacode and I'll explain what's happeninghere within os/2 I have the os/2multimedia presentation managerextensions what I'm going to show youcomes with os/2 now I had a universitycome down to the executive briefingCenter in Boca out of the East Coastmulti-million dollar multimedia lab theyhave PhDs came down their PhDs computerscience professors they were going toshow us their multimedia lab then theywere going to have us give us theexecutive briefing they had a ps2 model95 they brought with them a model 95 ismassive it's it was is a 50 megahertz486 32 megabyte of RAM 256 K a level 2cache and all it had was with video forwindows windows and a symmetric toolbook and dos ok they showed us themultimedia presentation when theystarted it went and they got so instreamly embarrassed because it workedyesterday but the multitasking istotally unreliable it's unpredictable Ithink is actually better word for it andthey were embarrassed because big whybecause they had PhDs computer scienceok and a multimedia multi-million dollarmultimedia lab I'm gonna actuallyinstead of play one video thing maybeI'll play two video things in fact in OS3 you can play three or maybe four ormaybe five okay now when I show youthese this is pretty neat stuff let meclose this down so I have a clean screenwithin this one hereI'm going to do a file open I'm gonnagrab an avi file now we supportlet me grab Harley over here we supportboth the OS choose all time motionthat's our codec compressiondecompression we also support Indiawhich is intel's compression technologyso there's this one over here and overhere I'm going to do a file open and letme grab piano over thereyeah piano and it's sort of corny but itgets the point across for you know thisis because it's a non threadedapplication coders when you write yourcode write threads the operating systemdoesn't put in threads by default theworkplace shell is well threaded thepeople that wrote that didn't write inthreads and that's bad coding policyright and it takes a while to get usedto threads but after a while it's goingto be a lot better for all theapplications now I'm going to do a playhere I'm going to grabnow I tell you we could play 30 frames asecond now go ahead and put this inbesides a video for Windows play pin thesides that os/2 can play it in or thesize that you really wanted in okay thisis a software there's no hardware hereokay now that was created I'll tell youthat that was created at that wascreated at 6 or at 1024 768 I am 640 480and that's the reason behind the loadthe bad resolution the resolution wasoriginally 320 by 206 4480 so this wastheir normal resolution this is softwaredecompression there's no hardwareinvolved here now over here let's goahead and start this piano playing againit's a little corny watch the fingerslisten to music and watch the fingersMcIntosh can't do this Microsoft can'tdo thisamiga can't do this look over here let'sstart off the Harley ed watch thefingersnot another technology that can touchthis and I can start moreI gotta tell you I gotta wait for thehardy nd because I like that part wherethe motor starts yeaheverybody loves to hog okay now I got totell you bite magazine last month it wasthe issue that has fat we're on thecover there's a review of the os2multimedia extensions by a guy named TomJager he wrote the multimediaencyclopedia for Macintosh Amiga and theIBM PC now the Amiga people have alwayssaid we've always been able to do thatright so this this gentleman to me sawthe multimedia encyclopedia hisrecommendations OS to the strongestmultimedia environment in the worldtoday period and that to me was prettygood there's no doubt it's great now I'mgoing to show you one more thing let melaunch now show me Dave yeah yeah yeahnow when I showed you right there waswhat I showed you was video that comeswith OS 2 the stuff that I just showedyou the multimedia extensions come withOS 2 2.1 you know and I don't even knowwhat they're throwing out out there isthere any cash coming out therecash cash now what I'm gonna do now isI'm gonna run some audio and I want tosee if you hear it skip a beat or if yousee the hourglass let's crank some audiohere in fact let me bring this up alittle bit because I have control of thevolume right here let's crank it up butthen I'll go work see if you here atskip a beat look for the hourglass ohlet's go little of it yeah now let'stake this downgo ahead open up just roll round uponthe same time but deceit now where didmy music go no this has happened to meonce before and I got to tell youDavid's not a happy fellow this hashappened before and it can actually hangme up and I did it I did it to myselfsee you say tha show me Dave watch Ishow you here and I'm going to show youwhile this comes up and I know exactlywhy this happened dave is doing a nastything here the video clips that I wantedto show you those aren't supposed to runwith the multimedia stuff that I wantedto show you but that Harvey thing turnsme onokay so what I just did was and one ofthe ways that you could hang Hardware anOS 2 is it the bad device driver and soI had to keep an old device driver inI'm gonna reboot my system right now Idon't like that but I have to do itI'll tell you though one of the thingsthat's gonna happen I want to explainwhat's going on along the way and itgives me an opportunity to tell youwhere we're gonna be going next I got togo through my whole 16 megabyte and allthat stuff and power on password thenos/2 is going to do a check disk becauseI use the high performance file systemthough and by the way empty supportshigh performance file system too becauseMicrosoft wrote it the while I go andrun the high performance file systemit's going to find some things on myhard disk it might find clusters that inthe Dass world it would say they'rebroken they're gone and the only twoworld's gonna say they're broken I'mgonna fix them yeah now I got a 400megahertz here it's gonna take a secondto do this so as soon as I get the keyindicator up there somebody tell me so Ican do a password it is a goodopportunity though for me to tell youwhere we're going next from here I'mgoing to talk about Talent in a momenttalent is pretty important college ispretty far out talents out there we'reCairo is it's part well it's fartheralong at Cairo certainly and I'll tellyou where Cal no only but I say thatbecause Apple started working on the thekernel for the talent operating systempink about five years agookay they started into it quite earlyand that's one of the reasons why weteamed up with them on it let me see ifI get myself started up here yeah andthere I go I'm going off to do the checkdisk now now OS 2 like you see righthere does not run symmetricmultiprocessing and I apologize for thatsort of how many people need it on theirdesktop today that depends not too manypeople need it on their desktop NT isgoing to come with symmetricmultiprocessing on every machine with OS2 you can buy it separately if you wentto Comdex you saw os/2 running on 4Pentium processors in the Intel boothyou saw os/2 2.1 this code right hererunning on 2 486 is on an AST machine inthe IBM boost 2 486 is on an ALR machinein the IBM booth symmetricmultiprocessing we're going to ship thatthis year for those who need it we arealso going to be able to have securityin OS to OS 2 is you see it here willnever be as secure as NT NT the securityis in the base kernel and that's whereit should beos/2 will have security we will be doingfile level locking and that kind ofthing we will sell it to those that needit as an add-on what's coming next fromos/2 though a thing called the workplaceOS it is built upon the Carnegie MellonMach 3 kernel we took their kernelaltered it and called it the IBM kernelit's an open kernel the Carnegie Mellonmach kernel then by the way see my andmy described document was open right infact I saw one of your help PCmagazine's it says problems because yougot an open file handle and you losepower and you're dead no not in thehigh-performance file system you fix itit found it and it's going to fix it nowpower OS workplace OS will run on RISCprocessors and it will run on cystsprocessors in other words 386 486Pentium as well as RISC processors rightnow power open is one of them it willsupport os/2 applications as they areright now with the same API we don'thave five sets of api's we have one theworkplace shell and os/2 is presentationmanager api's these applications willwork on workplace OS OS two applicationswere what about UNIX applications yes wewill support AIX applications runningmotifwe will support Mac applications not thefirst release Mac applications I likethatwe will support Dawson Windowsapplications the workplace OS will bootup on the kernel on a risk assistprocessor and then we have what we callschizophrenic again it's a 400 make harddisk it takes a second we have what'scalled schizophrenic operating system inthat we could have multiplepersonalities these personalities ispretty neat stuff these multiplepersonalities allow it nowI also have to tell you os/2 is gonnastart everything that was running okeverything that was running it's gonnago off and start right now and that canbe bad because what if it starts up thething that you didn't want it to startup yeahthen what you do is once you get thehourglass you hold ctrl shift after oneand say bypass that you can also turn itoff yourself okbut when os/2 comes up if you don't wantit to start up all of the jobs yeah Imean it's going to start up everythingyou can actually go and bypass that sothe workplace OS is always to a directchallenge or NT knock no no and most ofthe stuff you told me about NT soundslike it's going to be a good server butevery magazine I read today said itneeds 16 megabyte 100 mega hard disk andI'll tell you the magazine say I wanted4 mega I tell you it won'tI like 8 and os/2 yes always 2 can loadin as low as 13 mega hard disk but Ithink you should give it 40 if you'regonna install everything which is what Ishowed you it's not a direct competitorwith NT I'll tell you that I will putthis on my desk tops I will put this onmy end users desktops and NT I don'tknow maybe in a cutting maybe but not inrelease 1 certainly now I start up I heyany operating system I don't care whoseit is any operating system it takes awhile to get it all ironed out and an NTit's the first ever of anything of itssort it's the first portable multipre-emptive multitasking operatingsystem and it's gonna take a while tobring it out this by the way has takenfive years and it's finally smooth nowhere's my described document it says doI want to restore oh now this is prettyneat when I'm running describe and I'mtyping away you know how it can take asnapshot of what's in the backgroundwhile you're typing but sometimes youget a pause not an os/2 applicationbecause it launches a thread to do thatyou don't even know that it takes thesnapshotit's gonna go ahead and bring in thatdocument the scribe will have saved thetext it didn't save Popeye though forsome reason the scribe child chooses notto save the bitmapsas it puts it out there now I'm gonna goahead and load it in the describeddocument go ahead and see what else isrunning in the background here let's seeI've got my mm p.m. extensions loadedhere or somebody said show us you'regetting hungry out there let me go aheadand load this this says I got 32 megamemory that's virtual that's not realthat includes my swap space on the harddiskthere's my screensaver that was runninglet me get rid of that let me go backover here bring up the mm p.m.extensions that I was gonna play herehere's my multimedia apps here's mymovies and sound go one more time andload that sound in here here's pump itup and let me grab some sound and goahead and start and play it again nowand again I was going to put on hammerscan't touch this but I like this one tooand it was out there right now so let'sstart that up again let's start themusic let's get some volumecan't be open okay clown guy how manydogs out the eight applaud you'recooking again I'm Corey real happensgood got it thank you thank you now I'mgoing to start one I want to start tobut do I have the hours leftno I'm going to close watching the dogapplication Ramses go ahead and cascadethem put them up here at the same timetake this minimize it over there got myOSU logo there's some dog five filesthat are all running concurrently threedifferent dogs applications runningconcurrently on my desktop while I'mrunning music in the background bydigital audio that's pre-emptivemultitasking that's the best job supportof anything in the market today andthat's why I like itnow I got to tell you when you go outand record music and os2 I recorded andI did this in another environment thatafter I got into some music it saidsorry I'm out of memory in OS to keepyour file sizes under 4 gigabyte okthank you seriouslyan empty sing high performance filesystem in the MT file system are suchgreat improvements ok let's do some os/2applications now I got to show you wetalked about app show me Dave they wantmore stuff they're hungry now while Iopen that window right there let meclose this window here this one's got alot of icons on the screen there they gothere they gonow I'm going to go ahead and launchLotus 1-2-3 for os/2 I got to show yousomething see the hourglass here theLotus people don't have to do that Ishowed you two other applications theydisconnect from the system message queueand let me go work so I went to him andsaid why do you do that they want you tosee who it's registered to these are thepeople that two years ago still usecopy-protection yeah okay so now thatwas just purely coding it was notbecause of os/2 now here's the Windowsapplicator os/2 applicationthis is 32-bit OS 2 what I'm gonna dohere is I'm going to open up within thisapplication a desktop what a desktop ishere is I'm not just opening up Lotus1-2-3 here I'm also opening up freelancegraphics for os/2now wait a minute those are two separateproducts yeah but when you install themin os/2 it says hey Lotus is alreadyinstalled in your hard disk since I canreuse those same dynamic link librariesin the same code why don't I justinstall in the same subdirectories andtake three megabyte less data now when Iinstall I've got freelance down here andLotus what work my worksheet is up theremy worksheet is in the foreground so Igot worksheet icons when I click downhere now I've got freelance icons thoseare smart icons it's editing in placeand by the way that's part of what willbe in oh la 2.0 this is a shipping32-bit application right now it's calledediting in place ok now I'm not hey andI like Olay 2 don't think we won't graspon to that standard sooner or later youdidn't hear from me okay but we got someother things weother things now here's my my worksheetin the foreground I'm going to click onthe graph icon Lotus takes the data offthis worksheet it brings up a graph thatit thinks best represents my data whenthe graph is in the foreground then I goahead and click on the edit and copy nowwatch how quickly BAM OS 2's clipboard512 megabyte which means however bigyour hard disk is now understand this isvirtual you have to have hard disk spacefor itI had some people go but I thought itwas virtual no no no no no it has toexist somewhere so it exists out in yourhard disk okay now that is sitting outthere on my Mei clipboard I'm gonnabring back up describe here I'm gonnatake the scribe put it side-by-side withthe Lotus 1-2-3 and now this is prettyneat stuff it's sitting out there in theclipboard I'm gonna move this over hereI'm going to take this and put aboutright here I'm gonna do an edit insteadof a pace I'm gonna do a link paste linkso I take the data from my clipboard putit in there but I also create a dynamicdata exchange link back you know what Ilike about this productunlimited undo edit undo and when I meanunlimited I mean thousands folks and I'mnot kidding you can really do that letme go back here go back here select okayI wanted to put it there so let me do itone more time do an edit link paste linkput it back onto my desktop and put itthe right place now when I go back overhere when I click on the graph now Ihave graph icons when I click over hereon the pie chart make a pie chart BAMyou're gonna be yeah yeah now this isbetter though this is better let's takethis in the short amount of time I havebecause I'm probably over do you want meto show you morenow what I'm going to do is I'm going tobuild a 32-bit pre-emptive multitaskingmulti-threaded application withobject-oriented code and I don't programthis is pretty neat now wait a minutewho invented who invented this iconicuser interface Microsoft no Apple noXerox Palo Alto Research Center nowwhere did some of those smart people gothey started a company called digit talkthey invented small talkthe first object-oriented programminglanguage for the PC their second productbig product is this parts now I got totell you a lot of people look at theos/2 workplace shell and they say youknow this looks a lot like a MacintoshDavid is this part of the IBM Applerelationship I don't know but what I cantell you as part of the IBM Applerelationship right now I'm not wearingsocksokay now actually let me go now what I'mgonna do here I'm gonna build anapplication I'm gonna put this windowelement up in place because it's avisual application you need to have awindow element let me scale it a littlebit bigger I'm gonna go along here nowthis is pure 32-bit OS - notice thosefolders and things that's all workplaceshell stuff I'm gonna go back over hereand I'm gonna scroll through the foldersactually let me go back a page rightthere I'm gonna grab this thing herecalled a dial pain I grab it and drag itand drop it put it out on my folder herelet's put it up about right there thenI'm gonna grab this thing called ahorizontal slider and I'm gonna put itabout right over here now wait a minuteyou're saying David this is an interfacebuilder we've seen a lot like itbut we have to go and write the businesscode behind it no you don't that's whythis is neat look at thisSawa's day thank you let me go ahead andput a line between I'm going to put aline between there and there and I'mgoing to say when this value let me putit up so you can see when this value haschanged set the value there when I gohere I'm gonna say when this value ischanged set the value there if I want totest the application I click on lunch Ibring the application up let's move thedial BAM that's it okay nowbut let's go further these little lineshere mean that everything's cool ifsomething was wrong the line would bered so I know immediately something waswrong well how do I work with it clickwith the right mouse button it's anobject it has a pop-up menu all objectshave a pop-up menu now as it is thatthing is just fine so I'm gonna click onthe no lines there make those go awaythen I'm gonna go back over here I'mgonna scroll back a page if you scrolldown this says it's an energy entryinteger entry field accepts digits so Igrab this drag it and drop it over therenow I'm gonna put a line between hereand here that says when this value isentered I guessed that meant the Enterkey set the value there select okay goahead and launch it from there I can putit up here put in a value of 65 hitenter update this update that okay nowbut let's go further with this this isneat how do I link it to an applicationyou click on the interface icon if Iwanted to launch the application I putit there and I say when this is launchedstart Lotus 1-2-3 and describe don'thave to because they're already runningso I can get rid of that but as it isthis one here says dde client I put iton my workbench the user never sees itit's a non visual part so I put it overthere now this is the part I had to openthe book for I had to say what let meput this back I had to find out thatwhen you do this you say when theapplication is opened initiate dynamicdata exchange and when the applicationis closedterminate dynamic data exchange now whatam I going to DTE with well if youdouble-click on an object in OS 2 itopens up its settings I'm gonna DTE withLotus and the name of the spreadsheetwas graphic numbers I am NOT a touchtypist well I do touch it but that'sabout all dot w g2yes spaces are valid in those longfilenames but I still use that w g2because well it's a bad habit now I'mgoing to put it into cell b4 in thespreadsheetnow I could say put things in one celland take things out of another cellthat's done all I have to do is say whenthis value is changed here I want to putit in cell b4 select okay go ahead andlaunch the application from right therego ahead and minimize this bring upLotus 1-2-3 over here bring up describeword processorover there bring this to the foregroundwhen you bring when I bring this upnotice by the way the spreadsheet cellthat I'm going to is the one that's inyellow it's over here is cell bring thespreadsheet to the foreground where cellb4 this is going to take a second tobring up their their cell b4 okay solet's take this let's add a value hereof 6463it enter update this update that updatethat update that Bam and I linked updatethat graph now thank younow yeah yeah now watch this watch thiswatch the cell watch the cell in thespreadsheet you want to see fastinter-process communications let'schange this OS to 2.1 is fast that'spure and simple now here is a reallyneat part this is my favorite part nowwait a minute now you haven't create anapplication you built that little thingthere what do I do to make this into anapplication you select File save as Exeit's done it's finished it's anexecutable program even better it'sobject oriented which means I want to beable to reuse it or let appear reuse itso I drag it over and drop it in thecatalog it's now a reusable part that'sneat and if you ask me what is talenttalent is what you just saw there withthe operating system components withtelogen this is what you're going to dowith the operating system printer andcommunication stuff you're going tobuild your own applications but thenyou're going to say I want this virtualreality you know that's available fromthis company it's a framework and you'llbuy it and you'll plug it into your toolthe toolkit over there and you'll buildfrom that and that's why it's going totake a couple years to get it out therein full force and running tools will becoming this year you need the toolsfirst but is that going to replace os/2everywhere is that going to know there'sstill going to be work stations runningos/2 to get their work done newapplications will want the talent but inthe meanwhile I can run my dass windowsand os/2 applications very reasonablyand that's all I really want to do andI'm out of time thank you all very muchyouokay we have three microphones here thefront the middle in the back but beforeyou ask your questions to our guests I'mgoing to ask you some questions listenup here how many of you have 83 86 orany other 32-bit computers at home or atwork obviously it is not really a 32-bitsystem if it is running just dos orWindows so I'm going to ask how many ofyou are going are now running afull-bore 32-bit operating system eitheros/2 or Windows NT or Nova or somethingsomething exotic how many of you arerunning 32 bits already okay now I'mgoing to ask you two questions aboutyour feeling about about 32-bitoperating systems right now I'm going toask you how many of you plan to get NTright away just as soon as possiblehow many of you plan to get os/2 rightaway or just absolutely as soon aspossiblenow I'm going to ask you the maybequestions how many are going to wait forNT or some other Windows operatingsystem in the later versions that werediscussed how many are going to wait foros/2 or next step or Solaris or telogenor any other thing and and stick withDawson Windows NT for the time beingokay last question how many of you aregoing to die as a DOS version and you'renever going to touch this stuff yeahthat's das virgin not das version okaythank you for ask answering ourquestions and now we'd like to entertainyour questions for either one or both ofour guests you get one question not aseries of questions and so I'll take thefirst question from the middlemicrophone sir you got it by the way Imust compliment you on your name Daveit's an excellent name that happens tobe mine tooand I like your speaking voice thank youanyhow I run best view I run three notesof a BBS on desk view I run Windowsapplications on desk view and I havemaxed out all my drivers and everythingback to about five hundred and thirty Kat the bottom 640 tell me Dave what canI do I take the first of all there's alot of good os/2 BBS's out there I knowyou got what you want right now butthere's some good os/2 bulletin boardsoftware out there that runs real wellthere are there are drivers out thereyou know how des has has some smalldrivers to allow desafio to know when toswitch and how those things work underos/2 there has been code written so thatthose those indicators that let desk youknow hey I need slight those things canwork under os/2 darn near every dass appyou can put at os/2 you can run even onthe high-performance filesystem all myDawson Windows programs were out there--stay 8.3 for your dos programs butthere isn't much what you can'tthere you got any more specifics becauseI am young what about what about highertransverse than 96 one question okay I'msorrythat was a clarification high transferrate your daus applications in os/2 2.0you could run a Doss application at 9600baud when you started the second one yougot some timeouts that has beencorrected in os/2 2.1 we've allowed moreinterrupts per second so I can runmultiple 9600 baud background sessionsunderneath os/2 2.1 okay next lessonfront microphone i was version onerather 2.0 supports cuz he drivesversion 2.0 of os/2 supports scuzzy yeahbut there weren't as many drivers outthere these drivers if you wanted to getthose upyou mean version 2.1 now no no the olderversion the older version does supportthem and all of these drivers will workthere you just have to get them out ofhere and put them in there these driversos/2 unlike MTO s2 support 16-bit and32-bit drivers so will support anysixteen we even support your daus devicedrivers in your dog virtual das machinesso yes we support the scuzzy drives i'min use my scuzzy that's what i have onhere way the drivers aren't with thedomeokay now you support 32-bit devicedrivers and 16-bit now do you run 32-bitwindows applications the question ithink is probably going to be on thewind 32s running in a VDX machine rightwhen a pc week by the way to list allthree applications that exists on earththat need that in this issue no we don'tyet we can and we're evaluating it butthose three applications carbon-copymathcad and one other we cannot runthose are the only three the rearmicrophone do you support the stackerprogram or the extra drives yes stackerfor os/2 is available in shipping forthe fat file system it's golden code andit's advertised right now in PC week etcstacker for the high-performance filesystem is not shipping yet don't useyour DAW stacker on os/2 s hyper 400s 2or MT right is that correctdon't use your da stacker you hurtyourself it doesn't not so you need astackand an empties got your compression init already correctLT has some disk compression stacker forOS to fat is shipping high-performancefile system soon to be shipping there'sanother product called DCF diskcompression facility to spend shippingfor about eight months and that's foralways do as well the middle microphonethank you Dave I've been a happy alwaysto use if quite some time and I'm with Imoved up to 2.1 am I going to be able topreserve all the customization that I'vedone in my workplace show yeah if youinstall OS 2 you can install it on topof Dawson windows and by the way keep itif you want to for the same time rightand then later on when you knoweverything runs get rid of it you can itwill take your windows as it is andmigrates your Windows desktop so itlooks the same it'll take your OS toworkplace shell and migrate it don'tinstall os/2 on top of beta code thoughI mean you'll have a problem down theroad and you'll wonder was that why butso on top of os/2 2.0 2.0 with theService Pack OS to 1.3 dosser windowsyes beta code don't do it ok this is forthe this for the NT folks basically Ididn't notice or noticed you didn't runany dos applications under NT what I'vebeen seeing the media is performancedegradation of between twenty-five andtwelve hundred percent of dodgeapplications under some windowsapplications under OS excuse me under NTand I wanted to find out what you ifyou're doing anything to improve that orif that's the way it's going to be whenthe final product comes out yeah that'sa good question a lot of the initialofferings and testing that have beendone on NT smartphone up a lot of theevaluations that have gone on in NT werebased on the April and March builds ofNT the we've been code complete nowsince the end of the year we've allwe've done are all we've concentrated onsince the end of the year hisperformance testing and performancetuning and dos applications the Aprilbuild is about twice as fast as theMarch build the goal is to runapplications as five dots applicationsas fast as os/2should we wrote the os/2 stuff I meaninitially all the prop all that stuffcame from Microsoft so yes we will rundas applications just as fast the goalis you will not notice any performancedegradation whatsoever in your DAW sapswill support communication modes a lothigher than 9,600 for das apps also therear microphone this is I guess aquestion for both of you I'm trying toI'm about to write some software toaccess a mainframe but for securityreasons I want to take the data drop itdown into a file on the disk the programI'm writing is in is Windows based it'sVisual Basic so I don't want to be ableto do is with a separate routine do a Ibelieve it's called a synchronous filetransfer to the mainframe which istricky in Windows I want to be able todo that though taking the information toa file and then access it with myWindows program right can that be doneit is it tricky to do in either NT oros/2 it's it's you can do it in NT or inos/2 there what I would recommend thoughis their Visual Basic libraries orcustom controls that have the 3270 filetransfer API is already in there thatwill run those as Windows programs inthe background I'm not going to be ableto use 3270 though in this case okay letme add also in OS to each of those dosboxes although they're shielded they'renot totally you can use named pipes outof a DOSBox call an os/2 program call itinitiate it and use it to do your filetransfer and then name pipes issupported in OS 3 2.1 from dost os/2 orfrom das to Windows programs will I beable that's it thank you that will I beable to read that file thank you yeahsee me afterwards I'll hang around talkto you yeah middle microphone yeah Davecan I take you at your word when yousaid I can get it right now I understandPC people has several boxes of os/2 butyou have said you will not release ituntil the 14th of this monthhey I buy it now you know for somereason IBM marketing is still reallytrailing Microsoft's kicking our butt asfar as marketing folks there's no doubtabout it somebody in IBM said they canhave it on the shelves but they can'tsell it anybody in marketing thinkthat's stupid okayyes PC people is not supposed to sell ittill the 14th I don't know why our 800number says they're shipping immediatelybut I got a feeling that if you did thatyou get it about the same time they gotthe code it's here and that's amarketing issue and that's one of thethings I am working on in IBM we got allnew people it's going to get better okayyeah at the 14 front mic yes does the CDversion of OS 2 come with describe 4.0now the CD version of OS 2 comes withthe multimedia extensions but notdescribed described for oh you can getan email copy of it full function exceptthere's like two things I can't do soyou can evaluate the whole thing 32-biton CompuServe go os/2 user and it's outthere and it's one disk atmulti-threaded everything the middlemicrophone it's a question for Dougwe're a solution provider we've beendeveloping under NT for almost a year weabsolutely love it had a question fromMicrosoft though why hasn't Microsoftgone ahead and ported Excel Winward andother popular application straight awayto the 32-bit environment not waiting inmulti thread and so forth so we can useit to build solutions immediately likeall the other third-party softwarevendors yeah that's a great question thequestion was why has we why haven't wereleased 32-bit versions or when are wegoing to release 32-bit versions ofthese applications we're committed todelivering all of our application suiteon top of NT what you will see though isas the next product is released there'llbe a 32-bit version included in that Ithink I don't know if I'm giving awaytoo many secrets here I think we'll seea version of word for Windows sometimeearly fall or late summer we might see aversion of Excel sometime around thatand the reason that's happening is we'regoing to core code in all of ourapplications so that when we develop anapplication we can deliver itsimultaneously on the Macintosh Windows16 and windows 32-bit the rearmicrophone this question is directed toboth parties um currently I can visit tomod pals which is a sound and I also usethe modem but I can't do it currentconcurrently with Windows I would liketo know if I can both listen to musicand do modem transfers of the same withyour software but what I just did thereby playing those two music session I'lltell you I can play music I can playvideo I can do remote file transferbeyond local area network run Dawsonwindows programs at the same time and Ireally do it I think that answers thequestion there auntie gives you allthose capabilities also purelymultitasking purely multi-threaded soyou can do multiple thingssimultaneously all the input queues areasynchronous and they're all not linkedtogether so that you can do multiplethings about locking another applicationif you'll notice it was uh there was anhourglass sometimes on the OS - what wedo instead when we launch an applicationwe refer to what we have a new cursorit's referred to as a start cursor soyou still have your little cursor andyou have a little hourglass drop on thebottom of it what that makes what that'stelling you is that the application isstarting so we're giving you some inputand some feedback on the fact thatapplication is starting and then you cango do something else the frontmicrophone I have a question for bothoperating systemswhat about remote control software andfloppy tape backup okay from an NTperspective let me take the tape back upfirst a tape backup software is includedin an T package Lappe taken farmingfloppy take floppy tape backup andregular tech there's floppy backupincluded and there's tape backup floppycontrolled tape drives tape drives therun off the floppy controller tape drivethat really run off the floppycontrollera lot of them out here I'm not sure onantique I'd have to oh it's to one callback masterthere's one from sidequest you hadanother four there was that there wastwo parts to that coin mote control theremote control poly PM has been shippingfor over a year in the US and in Europealways lose a lot bigger in EuropeI got poly p.m. on here and it's nice Itake over the whole workplace show it'sas if I was right there there's anotherone called copycat that just went intobeta from Hill grave associates theymake hyper access and they just wentinto beta with them poly PM's beenshipping for a while a PPC NetBIOSasynchronous I can dial up from home andtake over all of themthank you NT has all those capabilitieswe have remote administration I canactually change the configurationremotely while the user is still usingthe package and they don't even realizeitI can also upgrade the operating systemremotely so I can force the new versionof the operating system down to theusers desk and the user never knows thatit happens he gets a dialog box thatpops up that says your operating systemhas been upgradedplease reboot your machine now by theway we've had that Noah stew for abouteight months shippingthe rear microphone this is a nose -question say I'm in a full screen dodgesession without using a TSR is there aproduct - hot key out of it into anyapplication say on the window or intoanother full screen also is there amacro language product available for theworkplace Shelley okay first of all rexis available for os/2 and it fullyexploits the workplace shell and anobject-oriented capabilities 32-bit it'sin os/2 but people tell me theyabsolutely love it as far as the hotkeycapability I don't think I got yourquestion I can enable I got a couple ofprograms that use control ourcontrol escape and alt escape well if Ido that in OS to OS - intercepts it inos/2 s dot settings you can say givethis to the Doss program but I'm notsure I got your question one hotkey 100K there's software on CompuServe rightnow that'll allow one hotkey anywhere inos/2 its shareware I think it's 25 bucksyou're gonna sign a queue to do darnnear anything you want the workplaceshell thank you thank the metalmicrophoneI'm an OS to user have been goes to user2.0 for quite some time 1.3 before thatstill musing fat and this have nottrusted h p FS what am I going to loseother than the long filenames by keepingmy filesystem as fat or is fat stillavailable fat is definitely stillavailable we now call it super fat wethink we've improved its performancesignificantly it really is a lot fasterokay a lot of Tears a lot of my peersstill use the fat filesystemI went HDFS because in South Florida weget power hits like crazy and I gottired of losing stuff I also like thelong filenames since I went I'd sayabout a year ago I there's nothing thatdoesn't run all my Dawson Windowsprograms run but if I take a dausdiskette boot it it can't even find myhard disk so I have an OS to this guyright and you can create that nowdownside would be you can't do a boot topure DOS that's the one downsideother than that it's stable it'sabsolutely love it and I when I pollpeople and users groups and I say whouses it they raised they're adamant theylovers of itHey smaller sector size I've got iconsout here that would take 16 mega on yourfat filesystem they take 8 meg on mine 5Pro yeah yeahthe rear microphone yeah this questionis directed of Dave well first of allyou did a very good presentation and youwere to receive the show well the mainconcern of not moving to OS 2 for me isthe the programs that is native to OS 2is show it is so limited and I don'teven see any store software store have asection of OS 2 software programs so Iwant to know how many programs currentlyavailable and will be available I just anumber and I'm with you I'll tell youright now there are 1200 OS to 32-bitapps but if you look at them it's notsomething you and I want sconcereceivable accounts payable billinginventory because corporations SocialSecurity Administration just bought70,000 copies of OS 2 to revamp theSocial Security AdministrationPrudential 40,000 copies Merrill Lynch40,000 the corporations are getting theapplications you and I want the funstuff I would love to have excel in Wordwins all for os/2 yeahbut they're not there I'll tell you thatwe have a group in IBM that's going outthere paying people to write code itworks what the heck we're not in theapplication business and we're not goingto compete against them we're gonna givethem money and to help them and bringthem to Boca and teach them how and it'sthe chicken in the egg there's justabout 3 million copies here there'll befour million soon people did then goingto want to write application I like tothank sure I said just for a second Iwe've sold 65,000 developers kits forWindows NT in less than nine months ok65,000 we did an internal survey ofthose 75% of them plan on deliveringapplications in the first 12 months okayso that is a ton of 32-bit Windowsapplications that will be availablethere's this pent up demand in theindustry for the modernized microkerneltype of approach to an operating systempurely 32-bit no limits on the systemthere's no thread limit in NT there'sjust none it doesn't existit's multi-user and multitasking we havea catalog now there's over 1500 vendorsthat have already committed todelivering windows 32-bit applicationsso there's a little be a lot of windows32-bit applications available and Idon't mean just toolsI mean basic applications andproductivity tools that you use everyday the metal microphone this is a noiseto question are the database manager andthe communications manager differ dothey differ in 2.1 2.0 now os/2 databasemanager and communications manager theyused to be together call extendedservices now we separated them actuallythey were yeah they now there's DB / 2and and the CM / - they function under -one without change you can go with yourexisting code it functions under here infact that took us a little while to getthat done because there's so muchfunction there but it works ok the frontmicrophone one of the biggest thing iskeeping me from going to 2.1 or 2.00 is- is IBM support there are known to bevery slow in getting things fixed oranswering their questions or Microsofthas been I think excels in that what isIBM doing to alleviate that if yeahthank that the remark was regarding oursupport I'll tell you that I get mixedreviewssome people say good most people say badthey get they don't get the call backsetc if you read this week's PC week whatwe tried to emphasize at Comdex was thatwe're not just IBM os/2 we're personalsoftware products we just hired 1,500people within the last couple of weekswhereboot camp that starts next Monday downin Orlando 500 oh s two people for theUS brand new OS two people another 1500on top of that and to tell you the truthwe brought in WordPerfect to try toteach us how to do phone supportseriously really deadthe last question okay okay yeah sorrythis is for Microsoft but it's a goodquestionwhen os/2 came out you pushed it a lotand you had a lot of developers check itout and everything but you dropped itif NT does the same thing that os/2 doesfor y'all in Chicago succeeds are yougoing to drop into like a hot potatolike you did os/2question was will we drop in T god Ihope not but the best way to answer thatis itMicrosoft is a market driven companyokay no one bought os/2 I believe it ornot I was running a copy you might havebeen running a copy but for five yearsthe product was on the market I thinkit's like four years we sold 300,000copies at that time when we werenegotiating with IBM we were sellingover a million units of Windows a monthour customersdemanded that we pursue Windows as astrategy it wasn't up to you know wedidn't think os/2 is a good product orbad product our customers demanded thatwe do that and that's what we willcontinue to do we will follow ourcustomers and we will be loyal to ourcustomers when you buy our products youcan ensure we'll be there for the longterm thank you thank youI said I'd like to thank both our gasand I'd like to say I'm realdisappointed in Microsoft marketing theyleft Doug here in a real tough positiondidn't didn't really support him verywell and I'm just wondering if Microsoftmarketing is getting as bad as IBMmarketingI very much appreciate bothpresentations I think you've seen thefuture and you've seen the finesttechnologies the this America has tooffer the whole world