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IBM Personal Systems Developer

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The IBM Personal Systems Developer was a quarterly magazine for OS/2 application developers. The Developer features a variety of technical articles, programming tips and techniques, product reviews, development case studies, and interviews with OS/2 industry leaders.

Articles from the first seven issues have been published by Microsoft Press in a book titled "OS/2 Notebook: The Best of the IBM Personal Systems Developer".

Issues

Volume 1 - 1989

Summer
  • 119–121 - Hamilton C Shell Announcement [1]

Volume 2 - 1990

Fall - G362-0001-07
  • 7 - Interview with Satish Gupta
  • 11 - Interview with Lee Reiswig
  • 13 - New Developments in 16 Bit OS/2
  • 17 - Spotlight: AutoCAD Version 10 for OS/2
  • 26 - Scott R. Swix: IBM Multimedia Product Chronology
  • 33 - Scott R. Swix: Programming the IBM M-Motion Video Adapter/A and M-Control Program
  • 40 - Guilio Maffini: Spatial Analysis
  • 48 - Barron: CD-ROM and Multimedia
  • 53 - Crossley: An OS/2 Business Graphics Toolkit
  • 58 - McFetridge: Corel Draw Migration to OS/2 PM
  • 68 - Horton: Collage PM: A Raster Bitmap Graphics OS/2 PM Application
  • 79 - Hubbard: XGA Benefits OS/2 Applications
  • 81 - Butler: XGA Technology
  • 90 - Ellis: Programming the Audio Visual Connection
  • 100 - Eshel: XIPC: A Comprehensive IPC Environment for OS/2
  • 107 - Kornfeld: Front-ending Applications with EASEL
  • 115 - Martin J. Sirkin: Configuring Remote Data Services (Part 1 of 2)

Volume 3 - 1991

Winter - G362-0001-08
  • 6 - Spotlight: DeScribe Word Publisher
  • 14 - OS/2 Version 2.0 32-Bit Semaphore APIs
  • 19 - Developing Controls for Presentation Manager
  • 23 - OS/2 PM Programming: A Performance Guide
  • 29 - Prototyping Software User Interfaces: Usability as a Competitive Edge
  • 35 - OS/2 Programmer's Editors
  • 38 - Information Presentation Facility: Author-Defined Viewports
  • 44 - Customizing IPF Help Information: Author-Controlled Viewports
  • 55 - Using Command Entry Fields with IPF
  • 63 - ENFIN/2: An Object-Oriented Fourth Generation Language Environment
  • 69 - The OS/2 BBS: Online Customer Support
  • 74 - Network File System Support
  • 83 - OS/2 TCP/IP Distributed Computing APIs
  • 94 - Configuring Remote Data Services (Part 2 of 2)
  • 103 - POLYMOD2: Multi-User Capability For OS/2
  • 115 - National Language Support and OS/2
Spring - G362-0001-09
  • 10 - Spotlight: The SAS Applications System for OS/2
  • 21 - New Kids on the Block
  • 25 - Checking Memory References
  • 30 - Will the Real Client-Server Please Stand Up?
  • 34 - Classic Client-Server Transactions Using APPC
  • 43 - Client-Server Computing Using PC's Dynamic Data Exchange
  • 49 - Client-Server Architecture for Single-User Appls.
  • 60 - Cooperative Processing Across SAA Environments
  • 65 - A Comparison of CPI-C and APPC on OS/2
  • 72 - Programming to the OS/2 NetBIOS API
  • 84 - OS/2 LAN Server Command Line Interface
  • 92 - Database Application Remote Interface Prime: You Too Can Feel the Power!
  • 98 - Avoid the Network Traffic Jam: Passing Blocks of Data Using DARI
  • 104 - Client-Server Databases: Three Approaches
  • 111 - CICS OS/2 as an Application Enabling Platform
  • 121 - Solving the Problem of Data Accessibility
  • 127 - Pipes Platform - A Distributed Computing System
Summer - G362-0001-10
  • 9 - Spotlight: Adobe Type Manager Software in OS/2 1.3
  • 19 - Cross-Platform Development
  • 23 - A Porting Primer
  • 32 - Migrating Windows Applications to OS/2 Using WLO
  • 39 - Porting Real-World Windows Applications to OS/2 PM
  • 48 - Developing PM Applications with Gpf
  • 55 - OS/2 2.0 Considerations
  • 72 - System Input Hooks under OS/2
  • 82 - IBM SAA Networking Services/2
  • 87 - Multiple Conversation OS/2 Server Using IBM SAA
  • 92 - Client-Server Solutions: OS/2 or Windows 3.0?
  • 101 - LAN Application Certification Support
  • 104 - Remote-Os Multi-User System for OS/2
  • 119 - Multi-Phased Cooperative Processing Application Development
Fall - G362-0001-11
  • 6 - Spotlight Feature: Micrografx - Enabling Technologies for OS/2 2.0
  • OS/2 in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CIM): Distributed Automation Edition (DAE), Transaction Enabler (TxE), PlantWorks, Paperless Manufacturing WorkPlace (PMW)
    • 18 - Distributed Automation Edition: a CIM Enabler Platform
    • 25 - TxE: An Enabler for Client-Server OLTP
    • 32 - PlantWorks: Application Automation Edition, The IBM CIM Application Enabler
    • 38 - PMW: The Paperless Manufacturing WorkPlace
  • 44 - Performance Monitoring for OS/2: System Performance Monitor/2
  • 55 - An OS/2 High Resolution Software Timer
  • 69 - One Stop Performance Shopping for the OS/2 EE Database Mgr
  • 78 - OS/2 Freeware and Shareware
  • 81 - The Arcadia CUA Workbench: A GUI-Independent Tool for the Creation of Robust OLTP Front-Ends
  • 88 - A Farewell To Sneaker Net - IBM SAA Delivery Manager
  • 95 - Debugging OS/2 1.x Device Drivers Using Periscope/Remote for OS/2
  • 101 - Printing Using OS/2
  • 107 - The OS/2 Print Subsystem Architecture
  • 117 - An Introduction to Multi-Threaded Programming
  • 124 - Split-Line: Multiple Session Communications
  • 129 - Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN): What It Can Do Today
  • 137 - Disk Array Management Software from Integra Technologies

Volume 4 - 1992

See: IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine