(see "OS/2 on the PowerPC Slated for This Year," June 1994 BYTE)
The official word from IBM is that OS/2 for the PowerPC is expected to enter general beta testing this fall and to be released by the end of the year. IBM has shown preliminary versions of OS/2 running atop PowerPC hardware at several industry trade shows over the past several months, but performance on these demonstration machines was poky.
The delay of OS/2 for the PowerPC means that IBM's new PowerPC-based Personal Computer Power and ThinkPad Power series of computers and notebooks can run only Windows NT or AIX. Meanwhile, Canon (Costa Mesa, CA) is positioning its new PowerPC-based Power Workstation line of systems and notebooks as "PowerPC Windows NT solutions."
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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