A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM—again—to release the operating system’s source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so… but if it can. Not, I expect, ...
It's been almost 15 years since Microsoft jilted IBM's OS/2 at the altar, kicking Big Blue while it was already down (financially), and exacerbating the old school company's global state of disarray - ...
Hands up: who, like me, was a one-time IBM OS/2 user? What, you don’t know OS/2? It was IBM and (briefly) Microsoft’s 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the world.
IBM assured customers Thursday that the company will continue to sell and support OS/2, clarifying an online notice that drew speculation that the vintage operating system was being phased out. The ...
Rabid developers and other fans of IBM’s OS/2 refuse to let the legendary operating system die. In the wake of IBM declaring that it is dropping support for it, over 11,000 people have signed a ...
In the annals of PC history, IBM’s OS/2 represents a road not taken. Developed in the waning days of IBM’s partnership with Microsoft—the same partnership that had given us a decade or so of MS-DOS ...
IBM, which will end support of its aging OS/2 operating system after 2006, is recommending that OS/2 customers migrate to Linux instead of Windows. But there’s little likelihood that IBM’s advice will ...
For a while now, the assumption has been that International Business Machines Corp. will phase out the manufacturing and servicing of its OS/2 system, which runs many an automated teller machine and ...
It was one of the most ambitious computer-product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry, which ...