OS/2 is a proprietary computer operating system for x86 and PowerPC based personal computers. It was created and initially developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft, under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci, [2] intended as a replacement for DOS. The first version was released in 1987.

2020年9月19日 · IBM OS/2 was intended to be the future of the PC platform. Here's why its die-hard fans still lament the success of Windows.

2019年11月29日 · OS/2 Warp was now a fully 32-bit operating system with memory protection and preemptive multitasking, whereas Windows 95 was still a horrible mutant hybrid of 16-bit Windows with 32-bit code.

IBM OS/2 was an operating system introduced in 1987 by IBM and Microsoft to operate the second-generation line of IBM personal computers, the PS/2.

In October 1994 IBM released OS/2 Warp, the most popular version of OS/2 and arguably one of the coolest operating systems ever (Warp Connect even said so on the box—“The totally cool way to run and network your computer”—so it must be true).

2021年9月26日 · IBM OS/2 is a computer operating system that originated in 1987 as a successor of IBM PC-DOS (also known as MS-DOS when released by its developer, Microsoft). OS/2 began as a partnership between IBM and Microsoft, but the pair split up around 1990 after the release of Windows 3.0 ---the two companies wanted to go in different directions.

The biggest thing in OS/2 2.0 was the operating system itself. But perhaps the single most important and new feature was the user interface, also known as the Workplace Shell (WPS for short). It was a radical departure from the GUI of OS/2 1.3 or Windows 3.0.

2012年4月2日 · By the mid-1990s, IBM had given up on OS/2 — a major step in the company’s slow-motion retreat from the PC industry, which it completed in 2005 by agreeing to sell its PC division to China’s...

2024年5月17日 · OS/2 (Operating System/2) is an operating system originally developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft as an advanced, largely rewritten version of DOS which added support for protected mode and preemptive multitasking.