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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Presentation Manager The elephantine graphical user interface to the OS/2 operating system. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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At the time, IBM and Microsoft were collaborating on subsequent version of OS/2; IBM was preparing version 2.0 for the Intel 386 processor, making it the first true 32-bit operating system for personal computers. Microsoft began to develop OS/2 3.0 which was intended to be a network server. However, during 1990, version 3.0 of Windows was beginning to sell, and Microsoft began to lose interest in OS/2.
The companies parted ways, and IBM took over all of subsequent development. Microsoft took with it OS/2 3.0, which it renamed Windows NT; as such, it inherited certain characteristics of PM. IBM continued to develop PM. In subsequent versions of OS/2, it was used as a base for the object-oriented interface Workplace Shell. In latest versions, IBM has commissioned Scitech Software with writing the graphic drivers for the majority of the cards that don't support OS/2 officially. There is a great integration of the graphic layer in the system, but it is still possible to run certain parts of OS/2 from a text-console or X-Window.
A problem that never has been solved is that of the single input queue: a failing application could block the processing of user-interface messages, thus freezing the graphic interface.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Presentation Manager."
Crosswords: PRESENTATION MANAGER |
| Specialty definitions using "PRESENTATION MANAGER": PM. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
presentation manager | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "PRESENTATION MANAGER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | gerenciador de apresentações. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-e-e-g-i-m-n-n-n-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-5 letters: representation. | |
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