ajayshah@castor.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (12/11/89)
I'm one of those who swear by Ventura v2, especially including Tables
and Equations.
Obviously, i've screamed in agony while the hard disk was thrashed
up (with not enough free memory to do good disk cacheing) and some
of my pages hit "out of memory" and LIM memory didn't work too well.
Well, the question is: any signs of Ventura for OS/2? Not that i love
OS/2 or PM (PM sucks!!) but it'll have memory enough to sing. Any
ideas on when?
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_______________________________________________________________________________akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (12/11/89)
According to PC Week or InfoWorld (I can't remember which), Xerox is working on ventura for both PM as well as for Windows. I don't remember the release dates, but I seem to remember something like the second quarter '90. I also read somewhere that Ventura was "lagging behind" or some such thing, and that Xerox had recently revamped their Ventura support, and was revitalizing that department. kartik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Department of Computer Science akm@oregon.BITNET University of Oregon
geller@tfd.UUCP (David Geller) (12/13/89)
In article <6976@chaph.usc.edu>, ajayshah@castor.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: > > I'm one of those who swear by Ventura v2, especially including Tables > and Equations. > > Well, the question is: any signs of Ventura for OS/2? Not that i love > OS/2 or PM (PM sucks!!) but it'll have memory enough to sing. Any > ideas on when? I'm quite sure most folks in this forum don't share your evaluation of Presentation Manager. If you don't like it, I suggest you stick with the GEM based version of Ventura. As for needing memory, Ventura 2.0 under GEM can use up to 16 Mbytes of expanded memory. Today. Now. Just buy it and try it. As for an OS/2 version...expect one, along with a Windows 3.0 version and an updated GEM version 1st quarter of 1990 - yup; right around the corner. All three products will function the same. A MAC version will likely follow a few months later. Also, the folks at Ventura (not Xerox) aren't vaporware merchants. Their OS/2 product was shown almost a year ago. It's been updated for OS/2 1.2 and WILL be on the shelves soon. David Geller Electric Logic, Inc. Washington, D.C.