🚀 go-pugleaf

If you've been waiting around for Window '95, you may have heard OS/2 
advocates talk about how the majority of user interface enchancements 
coming in Win9[567....] merely allow it to mimic what's already in the 
OS/2 WorkPlace Shell. 

IBM Employee Written Software has come out with the next best thing:
They have created a robust WorkPlace Shell that replaces your Windows
Program Manager and Task Manager. It gives you the look and feel of the 
OS/2 Desktop, SOM Objects, mappings of OS/2 Objects to Windows applets
(the OS/2 Drives object is mapped to the File Manager applet), settings
notebooks, drag and drop, and lots of the extra features tied into OS/2 uses
of the right mouse button.

If you are considering an operating system upgrade in the next few years, and
really want to honestly evaluate OS/2, let me suggest you download and try
WorkPlace Shell for Windows. It will give you a chance to learn the feel and
landscape of the OS/2 desktop without having to leap into installing OS/2 
immediately. The kit comes with automatic installation, along with complete
instructions for manual installation, and de-installation. 

If you are going to be migrating a user group to the OS/2, the leading 32-bit
desktop operating system, this would be a useful tool to starting training users
on so they can slowly come up to speed with what they'll get with OS/2. You
would want to go from driving a horse and buggy to a Formula 1 racer too fast.

You can FTP WorkPlace Shell for Windows from  ftp.cdrom.com. The program
is in /os2/incoming, and is named wpshell.zip.  You will need PKUNZIP 2.04e or 
later, or freeware Unzip. The zip is just over 500K, and installed takes up 
350K RAM, and 600K drive space.

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Jon Austin
jaustin@acpub.duke.edu                  Birthplace of 'USENET'
"I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than use Windows"
War is peace   Freedom is slavery  Bill Gates <--> Big Brother