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IBM Officially Kills OS/2

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rest-in-peace dept.

boarder8925 writes "'Big Blue has hammered the final nails into OS/2's coffin. It said that all sales of OS/2 will end on the 23rd of December this year, and support for the pre-emptive multitasking operating system will end on the 31st December 2006.' IBM has posted a migration page to help OS/2 users easily switch to Linux."

3 of 609 comments (clear)

  1. Re:first post by Mystic0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You fail it!

  2. Re:Open the Workplace Shell by mingot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh, it meant you had this thing called a 'font pallete' that had some fonts. And you could drop them RIGHT ONTO APPLICATIONS and it would change fonts and whatnot. Some applications were even programmed to PERSIST THE FONT CHANGE ACROSS PROGRAM LOADS! *VERY* Cool stuff, that WPS was.

    Really. If you don't understand how that made OS/2 cool as shit and better than windows you can go fuck yourself.

  3. Re:Won't somebody please think of the ATM machines by operagost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sure, I'd trust my money to the most unstable OS ever made!

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