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 announced on Monday that the man who oversaw the development of its OS/2 operating system in Boca Raton over the past four years is resigning to take a job in Alabama. Tommy D. Steele, 51, ...

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.

I've never been religious about computer operating systems. I use what works best for me. A year ago, my home computer's main operating system was IBM's OS/2 Warp. Despite serious flaws, it met my ...

The official names of "OS / 2" are "IBM Operating System / 2" and "Microsoft Operating System / 2". OriginallyIBM PS / 2Although it was developed as an OS for use, it was also transplanted to many ...

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, ...

OS/2 community site OS2World.com organised the second petition in an attempt to reverse a 2005 decision by IBM not to open source the operating system. Over 11,000 people signed the petition in 2005, ...

Arca Noae, which is behind a revival of OS/2, has attended a convention of OS/2 users to spill the beans about the Blue Lion project. I know what you are thinking, but apparently there is an OS/2 ...

The IBM-Lotus merger that was signed, sealed and delivered over the weekend was viewed Monday by a variety of experts as the beginning of the end for IBM’s star-crossed OS/2 Warp personal computer ...

Harry McCracken dusts off the history books: On April 2, 1987…IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry…[with the] PS/2 line…accompanied by a next-generation operating system, OS/2…intended ...

With International Business Machine’s getting its marketing machine behind OS/2 2.0, PC hobbyists are destined to hear more about it. We asked local personal computer expert Ed Stiles to review the ...

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...