Insights - January 1995

by Stacey Miller

Ah... the sweetness of success! IBM has been experiencing much success these last few months... First, with the release of OS/2 Warp and second, with the Beta of our newest operating system - OS/2 for the PowerPC.

Our ISVs have also enjoyed the sweetness of success. For instance, Dr. Randell Flint of Sundial Systems - one of the first to port an OS/2 application from Intel to the PowerPC - shares his success story on page 1. For more on this cross-platform environment and its tools, read Jay Tunkel's article on its development environment and Robert Warren's article on MetaWare's cross- and DirectToSOM C++ compilers.

More Bang for Your Buck!
And now for your New Year's presents - this volume of The Developer Connection for OS/2 contains the Beta of the OS/2 for the PowerPC (SDK). We also have the prerelease version of the SOM-based OpenDoc toolkit, the Beta version of Object REXX, and lots of other great goodies for you. So much, in fact, that we've busted out of our two-CD-ROM package into three CD-ROMs - that's a value!

In this Issue
Scott Winters, lead architect for the development of OS/2 for the PowerPC, describes the trials of developing a new operating system. Jeri Dube explains how IBM is delivering on its OS/2 32-bit API commitment. Robert Tycast helps you write your first OpenDoc part handler (complete with source code) and Mike Baryla takes you on a trip through the land of Object REXX. We're also not forgetting OS/2 Warp with articles from Cathy Bloomfield, Eric Osmann, Allen Wynn, and Joe Polimeni. Device driver writers will appreciate Mike Cooper's article on monitoring display driver interface calls and Vince Rapp's article on using the new Device Driver test tool. And, our LAN Systems programmers will certainly enjoy the article by Rob High.

Newsletter Source Code
All newsletter source code can be found in the category Source Code from The Developer Connection News, which is on Disc 1. Or, for you command-line types out there, check in the path ..\SOURCE\DEVNEWS\VOLx (where x is the volume of the newsletter).

Happy New Year and Happy Programming!

Stacey Miller

Editor, The Developer Connection News