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 the annals of PC history, IBM’s OS/2 represents a road not taken. Developed in the waning days of IBM’s partnership with Microsoft—the same partnership that had given us a decade or so of MS-DOS ...

Microsoft bested its sometimes partner IBM on the operating system front How Microsoft Windows bested partner IBM’s OS/2 operating system Dr. Phil might tell you that no one wins an argument, but ...

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 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 ...

ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct descendant of IBM’s OS/2. It’s just received a major update, and delivers ...

A retrospective on Mac OS from I to X showcases Apple's evolution in operating systems over the years.