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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."

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  1. Won't somebody please think of the ATM machines? by John+Harrison · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Last time I checked, large numbers of ATM machines ran OS2, which is why you don't see the BSOD when you go to grab some cash.

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  2. Open Source OS/2 by katana · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's too bad that Microsoft owns so much of OS/2. It would be great to see it released as Open Source. The Open Source OS/2 Petition is a good start.

  3. I wonder what will happen to some things.... by tu_holmes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What will happen to some mainframes and tape libraries?

    OS/2 is still the predominant OS for managing MVS systems (even the new Z series) as well as tape libraries.

    Will they be migrating all current environments into Linux as part of this? Or will they just leave those alone?

    I wonder...

  4. Re:Open the Workplace Shell by Losat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hear hear! I love the WPS!
    It's been so long since I used OS/2 that I'd forgotten about dragging colors and fonts from the palettes and such, until I went and checked out eComStation a few moments ago. I remembered that WPS rocked, but I'd forgottem some of the coolness.
    BTW, I liked the old settings notebooks better than the later tabbed dialogs. I especially liked notebooks with both horizonatal and vertical tabs (when appropriate).
    And my favorite UI feature missing in other systems: the Conditional Cascade Menu!

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