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OS/2 Going, Going... Gone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the os/2-is-dying dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "IBM has posted a Software Withdrawal notice on their web site announcing that the OS/2 operating system, in all its forms, will cease to be available for purchase from IBM as of March 12, 2003. For users who have purchased the two year OS/2 Software Choice subscriptions, service will continue until December 31, 2004." We posted a pretty good story about the history of OS/2 earlier this year.

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. You mean it was not already dead? by nexusone · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought OS/2 had been off the market for some years now....

    Just a ghost of OS's past.....

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  3. Re:386 Architecture by thammoud · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have the OS/2 2.0 source code. Very little of the code is in assembler. It is written in C. Main parts of the scheduler and some PM is written in assembler.

    Praise the Microsoft 386 C compiler.