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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. FERSED POHSED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft ROCKS! WOOT

  2. Punny by Malicious · · Score: -1, Troll

    ObSolete 2

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  3. first 'open the source'/'abandonware' post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of
    defunct operating systems? you could save a bundle
    of money! why doesnt anyone love me!

  4. Sometimes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I'm all alone, at night, I think about your mom and it makes me feel all good inside. But the next morning the guilt and shame follows. Your mom, I shall miss you!

  5. Re:Sometimes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We're both Anonymous Cowards, so I guess we have the same mom! Ewww!

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

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  7. Good Riddence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am always suprised to hear people praise OS/2. I interned at IBM 5 or 6 summers ago and we were forced to use it. It was one of my most miserable computing experiences ever. It crashed often (on different machines, so I don't think it was hardware), the UI was terrible and unintiutive, and if I remember correctly, it didn't multitask well (if at all).

    Maybe they have improved it since. But all I remember is longing for a win95 machine that crashed a couple times a day as opposed to my os/2 machine that crashed every hour and was impossible to use.

  8. IN SOVIET RUSSIA.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, IBM discontinues YOU.

  9. 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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  10. 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.

  11. Re: FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ^^ Above is the classic "Team OS/2er" attack, as widely seen on usenet in the mid-1990s.

    Someone posts a sympathetic message about OS/2 and mentions some sucky lack-of-QA problem they had with the system.

    Mr. Team OS/2 comes flaming along and pronounces "FUD" and "Nonsense" and then makes personal attacks. He then usually meantions something about 32-bits or Doom-in-a-window or his lame ass BBS or some other marginal feat of OS/2. At no point does accept that OS/2 could have any problems whatsoever.

    This sort of behavior tended to scare more users away from OS/2 than it attracted. Go Team!