— -- NEW YORK -- IBM reaffirmed its intent to end support for the storied OS/2 operating system byreleasing an official road map for the software's demise. IBM, based in Armonk, New York, hasn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive is a large collection of OS/2 software that has been publicly available for many years, even as OS/2 itself has mostly faded into obscurity. Yet now it would appear that the ...

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 ...

OpenServer 6, UnixWare 7 and the upcoming Fusion remind me of nothing more than the late, lamented IBM OS/2 operating system – outstanding quality that no one was interested in buying. I did trek to ...

Despite increasing pressure from Linux, Microsoft dominated the worldwide market in 2002 for operating systems used on servers and, less surprisingly, the operating system market on the client side.