by Vaughn Vernon

from the December 1987 issue of Computer Language

OS/2, Microsoft’s latest addition to its operating system line, could well become the operating system of the next decade for Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers. Its multitasking capabilities, full-featured application programming interface (API), and extendability to future hardware almost guarantee its success.

Microsoft sees microcomputing as a platform for office automation hardware and software: The office of the future (regardless of a company’s structure and line of business) is envisioned as a place of personal and group productivity. Personal productivity is to be achieved through multitasking, common graphical user interfaces, and the sharing of resources such as data and powerful hardware. Group productivity will occur through individual use of wide and local area networks (LANs).

from the November 1987 issue of PC Tech Journal magazine

An inside look reveals how one company rapidly converted a complex data manager from DOS to the OS/2 environment.

by Steven Armbrust

When Microrim, Inc., became a beta site for IBM’s new Operating System/2 (OS/2) in late 1986, Microrim chairman and founder Wayne Erickson knew immediately what he and his staff had to do. Not only did they have to convert R:BASE System V, Microrim’s largest and most complex database manager, to run under OS/2, but the job had to be done in time to demonstrate a working product when IBM officially announced OS/2. At the time, no one knew how soon the announcement would occur (it came just six months later).