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.

25 years ago, IBM was still the biggest force in the PC industry. On this date in 1987, the company announced a new partnership with Microsoft that at the time seemed to be the next major step in the ...

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, ...

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 ...

International Business Machines Corp. announced on Tuesday the early shipment of OS/2, the operating system for the advanced models of its line of PS/2 personal computers introduced in April. The ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tremble, mortals! Halloween is upon us. Ghosts, ghouls, and other undesirable creatures are prepared to slink out of their domains and into ours—it’s said that even the dead can rise on Halloween. In ...