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The Sad Parable of OS/2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-flesh-wound dept.

Still-in-Mourning writes "IBM's first 32-bit version of its advanced PC operating system was released 10 years ago this month. It was better than anything around, yet it failed. Its hopes were pinned on many of the same things we hope today will bring Linux to the forefront. What lessons are to be learned? Will we learn them? A glimpse of a sorry chapter in computing history."

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  1. Re:OS/2 subsystem for NT by Locutus · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, it was mainly to give NT it's networking back in the rev 1.0 (3.1) days. Microsoft owned Lan Manager and it was a 16bit OS/2 server process. They eventually wrote native NT networking into NT but it was probably not until v4.0 that the OS/2 subsystem wasn't used much.

    LoB

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