[Discussion] OS/2 Professional

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear POSSI:

I do NOT know what software WAS used to compose OS/2 Professional by ?Ziff-Davis Publishing? but presumed it was one of the major app.s of the day. Framemaker and Pagemaker came to mind. (The other major DTP app. WAS (/ is?) Quark Express (Macintosh ONLY, at the time (still?).)

I was referring to the fact that
Framemaker, Inc (makers of Framemaker)
 and 
Aldus Corp. (makers of Pagemaker)
had ANNOUNCED their intention(?) to release a NATIVE OS/2 version of their "flagship" products. I do NOT remember the industry / market conditions BUT, shortly there after, BOTH were "acquired" by Adobe Corp. and NO versions for OS/2 were ever released.

As an aside, let me mention that it has ALWAYS struck me as MONOPOLISTIC that Adobe was ALLOWED to acquire BOTH these products within a short period of time! They were (/ ARE?) the major DTP app.s and should have remained competitors.

Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton


--- On Mon, 7/27/09, Douglas Clark <clark454 at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Douglas Clark <clark454 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] OS/2 Professional
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 7:24 AM
> FrameMaker 5 runs very well in
> WinOS2.
> 
> Doug Clark
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:30:02 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Clayton
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Copyright Violation!
> >
> >If they'd just let out the original (?Framemaker or
> ?Pagemaker) files
> > :-)
> >
> >from which *.PDFs could be generated
> >
> >(or we had "native" Framemaker for OS/2 OR Pagemaker
> for OS/2)
> > :-D
> >
> >... still it /would/ have been nice.
> >
> >Tom Clayton
> >
> >
> >--- On Sat, 7/25/09, James Cannon <cyberspittle at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: James Cannon <cyberspittle at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Discussion] OS/2 Professional
> >> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> >> Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 7:53 PM
> >>
> >> Hi Gordon,
> >>
> >> Would be nice if someone if someone scanned the
> magazines
> >> for posterity and made available.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >> James Cannon
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On Sat, 7/25/09, Gordon Snider <gsnider at look.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > From: Gordon Snider <gsnider at look.ca>
> >> > Subject: [Discussion] OS/2 Professional
> >> > To: "eComStation" <eComStation at yahoogroups.com>,
> >> "Possi Discussion" <discussion at possi.org>,
> >> "Scoug General" <scoug-general at scoug.com>
> >> > Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:48 PM
> >> > All,
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone need an issue or 2 of "OS/2
> Professional"
> >> > magazine?
> >> >
> >> > I have a few issues from Volumes I, II, and
> III that I
> >> will
> >> > give away by
> >> > ones and twos if you need them to complete
> your
> >> > collection.
> >> >
> >> > Please contact me off-list.
> >> >
> >> > Gordon Snider
> >> >
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> Thanks
> 
> Douglas Clark
> 
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