OS/2 turns 25 years old ( anyone remeber this Operating System?)

The Inquirer ^ | Mon Apr 02 2012, 19:06 | Egan Orion

[Bigh4u2]

Yep. My bad.

But you can run BeBochs for Windows and install OS2 in a virtual setup.

Never tried it though so don’t know how well it would work.

[NCjim]

I used every version and loved them. It did very well despite IBM’s best attempts to make it unsuccessful.

[antiRepublicrat]

Gates was as much a computer guru as Obama is a constitutional guru.

Gates actually did early development work on good products. The operating system for the famed TRS-80 Model 100 (a laptop still used to this day) was the last software he personally contributed to.

[Dilbert56]

That was quite a battle between IBM and Microsoft. Finally, MS told computer hardware manufacturers that, if they wanted to preload Windows on the hard drive, they would have to pay for a Windows license on every computer they sold, even if it didn't have Windows. If a manufacturer didn't go along, their customers would have to install and configure Windows from a CD or diskettes, a substantial competitive disadvantage. So now manufacturers selling OS/2 on a box would have to charge for OS/2 and Windows.

Talk about predatory market practices. Go ahead and sue; By the time your case is heard we'll have 95% of the desktop market. My opinion, IBM was not nimble enough to deal with a marketplace which was revolutionized every 6 months. Full disclosure, I've worked for IBM for 34+ years.

When Gerstner took over IBM he asked the key question: IBM had decided the desktop O/S was non-strategic, so why was it spending hundreds of millions each year fighting for it. A company losing billions/year couldn't afford to subsidize such an effort. That was the end of the battle. Too bad Gerstner couldn't now apply that reasoning to the Federal Government's expenditures.

My younger daughter still has fond memories of sitting on my lap playing Reversi, one of the games that came with OS/2. I drove the cursor and she worked the mouse buttons.

Trivia fact: Shortly after Al Gore invented the internet , OS/2 Warp offered a free browser called Internet Explorer. Netscape cost real $ in comparison.

[markman46]

I use it everyday it’s now called ecs

[narses]

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