From the EditorWritten by Larry Salomon Jr. |
AdministriviaAnother month gone by; this month, I decided to incorporate more changes suggested by Carsten (of which some were forwarded from readers). Some of them are listed below:
There are a couple of others, but I will let you find them. And The Winner of the Most Forgetful Award Is... me, obviously. Not surprisingly, last month I lost the rdc.cmd file which was to be included in the article Resources and Decompiling Them; it has been included this month. PC Expo Came and WentPC Expo was enjoyable, even though I was there for Thursday only. After
three years, I was finally allowed to peek behind the scenes at the IBM
booth with the animated character. You know the one; he says the funniest
one-liners and usually makes a joke about Microsoft (which invariably
results in a phone call from one of that company's lawyers about libel)
before the end of the show. I've been trying to get a peek at how it was
done for three years at least. Now, I can die a happy man. Seriously, it was fun. IBM was showing off these new 21 inch monitors
(which haven't been approved by the FCC), as well as the Power PCs running
AIX and OSF1. I managed to hijack the IBM C-Set++ booth to give away five
copies of my book. The Developer's Connection volume 4 is shipping as I
write this and it does contain some goodies; watch your mail! Finally, I
finagled a copy of the OS/2-in-4M beta on CD-ROM but haven't gotten around
to installing it. The kiosk of this at the Expo had an impressive
demonstration running on a ThinkPad with 4M and running either Word for
Windows or Excel (cannot remember which), Klondike Solitare (OS/2 version),
and the Clock, and response was quite snappy.
I will be taking a week for vacation this month and might decide to skip
next month's issue since everyone else seems to be enjoying their summer
too. At work, I have had a need to develop a limited subset of the PM API for
VIO applications. While the limitations to using it are many, the
implementation of the VIOWIN library is very interesting because it gives
one an insight into the implementation issues that the original PM
developers had to face. I intend to discuss the library in-depth in a
future issue, but cannot commit to a specific issue. Watch this space.
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