IBM's SOM

[devin]

Hi,

I've been researching older/vintage object orientation models and came across something called SOM (System Object Model). Apparently it came out a little before Microsoft's COM. Does anyone have any example programs or code that was built around SOM or utilized SOM?

The wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model describes a system that sounds/sounded very promising.

 

[mbbrutman]

SOM dates back to the mid 1990s. It's not going to run well on any of the hardware people are using here, and it was not widely adopted. (I had a copy of the SOM Object Toolkit for OS/2 way back when.)


Mike

 

[krebizfan]

The Hobbes OS/2 archive includes a number of sample programs and articles using SOM in the WPS directory. You will need a copy of OS/2 v3 or v4 to run most of these.

If this link works, it should point you at most of the SOM code:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=/pub/os2/dev/wps