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Inside OS/2 (1987)
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.
This article introduces you to the variety of system services provided in OS/2, allowing you to investigate the opportunities offered by OS/2 without a substantial investment of time and money. The OS/2 SDK comes complete with an optimizing C compiler, macro assembler, and a host of other programming and operating system utilities and tools: object librarian, linker, CodeView source debugger, and full-featured window-based programmer’s editor. With the 386, a full 32-bit linear address space is available; 32-bit machine operations and multiple concurrent MS-DOS screen groups can run along with protected-mode applications.
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