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 ...

IBM OS/2 was an alternative to Microsoft Windows throughout the 1990s, but Microsoft won out in the end, and the operating system was relegated to niche use cases. Over 24 years since the final OS/2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM releases z/OS 2.5 to help modernize mainframe computing Your email has been sent IBM recently announced the release of version 2.5 of its z/OS mainframe operating ...

In a move that marks the end of an era, New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced the impending closure of its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024. For over three decades, the archive ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of IBM’s announcement of the OS/2 PC operating system. Harry McCracken over on Time.com has a great piece reflecting back on the success and failure’s of IBM’s ill ...

For a certain subset of our readers, mentioning IBM’s OS/2 is likely to bring forth a pang of nostalgia, while for others it’s more likely to bring to mind meme images of rebooting ATM displays.

In context: The early 1990s were tumultuous years for the home computer operating system market. Major corporations were vying for dominance in the emerging GUI-based paradigm, with Microsoft poised ...