Research Stream: Examining Presentation Manager
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| VoD Link | N/A |
| Streamed On | N/A |
| Streamed by | NCommander |
| Stream type | Emulated on 86Box |
Description
The goal in this stream is to understand the impact of Presentation Manager on OS/2. Up until Windows 3.1, it was still pretty common to load Exit back into DOS, but there's no way to exit Presentation Manager; it was the intended way to use the system. So what did you get out of the box, how it did evolve, and more?
Rationale
Sidekick
Borland Sidekick was a very popular TSR for handling data, and it was also one of the first available Presentation Manager applications.[1] The direct comparison allows to show how the GUI did or didn't improve things ...
Console Multitasker
This would have probably been the main use for early Presentation Manager, since there were very few native graphical applications at the time period, although I won't be surprised if some developers used TSHELL or the like to make do with less capable hardware.
Questions Asked and Answered
These were questions I wrote down and asked before doing the stream to try and answer them, and my collected feelings over them.
- How does Windows 2.x compare Presentation Manager in OS/2 1.1?
- How does Borland Sidekick compare between DOS and Windows?
- How is Presentation Manager at handling running multiple console sessions at once?
- Is Presentation Manager an upgrade over the TSHELL interface?