Minutes of TAMU OS/2 User's Group Meeting
7 February 1995  --  George R. Welch
11 people in attendance.


	The meeting began with a brief plea from Neal Krawitz for help
from the various members.  Neal will maintain the unofficial role of
chairman of the club, but several others (who are they?) will take over
other jobs such as

	Reserving meeting room (?)
	Publicizing meeting (?)
	Recording minutes (George Welch)

The following items were discussed:

	WWW Page for the user's group.

	Software review.  Occaisionally the club recieves copies of
software to be reviewed by club members.  The members must agree to
minor restrictions.  The following were checked out:
		Systos+ by Dwight Miller, and
		PFS-works by Bret McLaughlin.
	These softwares will be reviewed at the next meeting by those
members who have checked them out.

	The idea of a good, bad, and ugly report by the members, to
appear in the newsletter and proposed WWW site was discussed.  Our
feeling is that perhaps each member could give a few bytes of discussion
about his or her hardware and software setup, and their high and low
points.

	Inventory.  Neal pointed out the the club now has various
books, video cassettes, and a lot of back copies of OS/2 Professional
which members can check out.

	Dwight donated "IBM - Team OS/2 in Action" videotape.

	George Welch then demonstrated a "head-to-head" display of the
image viewers PM-Jpeg, and PMView.  He was clearly biased toward PMView,
as his demo demonstrated.  He demoed the software on his own peecee:  a
486DX-33, with 16 Megs ram, Vesa-local-bus ATI Graphics-Ultra-Pro video
card running in 1024x768x16, OS/2 2.11, and ATI's cheesy-rodent OS/2
video drivers.

	First, he showed image loading speed for 24-bit JPegs:

         	  PMJpeg    PMView
       300x300     3 sec    <1 sec
       640x480   9.5 sec   2.8 sec
       800x600  12.6 sec   3.7 sec
      1024x768  23.3 sec     8 sec
     1536x1024    45 sec    12 sec

	Gifs decoded much faster for both programs, but PMView still
displayed at least a factor of two speed advantage.  Other factors
considered were PMJpegs ability to do screen capture, and PMView's drag
and drop slideshow paradigm.  PMView also has a really nice/really
annoying thumbnail capability, and outstanding WPS integration.

	The meeting then degenerated into various discussions, and
broke up.