Presentation Manager

Presentation Manager (PM) is the graphical user interface (GUI) that IBM and Microsoft introduced in version 1.1 of their operating system OS/2 in late 1988.

It is based on the IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA) Common Programming Interface.

Documentation

• Presentation Manager Interface API Documentation

Components

Presentation Manager on OS/2 Warp 4.5x is composed by the following DLLs:

Name	Comments
OS2SM.DLL
PMATM.DLL
PMBIDI.DLL
PMCLIP.DLL
PMCTLS.DLL
PMDCTLS.DLL
PMDDE.DLL
PMDDEML.DLL
PMDRAG.DLL
PMGPI.DLL
PMGRE.DLL
PMMERGE.DLL
PMMLE.DLL
PMPIC.DLL
PMPRE.DLL
PMSHAPI.DLL
PMSHLTKT.DLL
PMSPL.DLL
PMUNIF.DLL
PMVDMP.DLL
PMVIOP.DLL
PMWIN.DLL
PMWINX.DLL

Articles

• EDM/2 PM Articles

Publications

• OS2 WARP V3 Presentation Manager Programming Guide: The Basics - 1994
• OS2 WARP V3 Presentation Manager Programming Guide: Advanced Topics - 1994
• OS2 WARP V3 Presentation Manager Programming Reference Volume 1 - 1994
• OS2 WARP V3 Presentation Manager Programming Reference Volume 2 - 1994

Links

• Wikipedia
• FreePM - Open source PM clone project
• osFree - OS/2 Clone project