Standalone PC, Network Workstation Now Supported for OS/2 Warp UnibaseOS/2 Warp utilizes a flat memory model with no 640k restriction and a 32 bit memory management system. It is a multitasking / multithreading operating system. This means that numerous programs can be executed simultaneously (multitasking). Within these programs independent program segments can also be executed simultaneously (multithreading). OS/2 Warp Third Most Popular OS With eight million licensed workstation users, OS/2 is the third most popular operating system today. DOS (PCDOS and MSDOS) has about 150 million licensed workstation users. UNIX with around two million licensed systems (not workstations) is the second most popular if more than four users per system are assumed. Windows 3.1 is not an operating system but an application program under DOS. Windows 95 has not been released and has no track record. Unibase Looks the Same To the user, Unibase by DMAC under OS/2 Warp appears no different than under DOS or UNIX. The OS/2 workstations have been configured to use the same file system as the DOS based workstations. The OS/2 Warp workstation can replace a DOS workstation. Users may mix DOS and OS/2 WARP workstations on the same network accessing the same ETROOT. The DOS workstation under OS/2 (now being used on many Unibase by DMAC workstations) can co-exist with the new OS/2 workstation as a network workstation. Unibase by DMAC under OS/2 WARP supports multiple OS/2 WARP windows. Unibase Imaging Coming to OS/2 Unibase Imaging, the heads up image keying addition to Unibase, will run in native mode under OS/2 WARP in the future. Currently the DOS heads up image keying module is called when referenced in the OS/2 WARP release of Unibase by DMAC.
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