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Is OS/2 Coming Back?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the high-school-flashback dept.

mstansberry writes "Is IBM considering relaunching OS/2? One source close to IBM says Big Blue plans to repurpose OS/2 services atop a Linux core. IT managers ask, why now?" Hey, back in simpler times OS/2 was super badass. Both of the guys who ran it were hard core.

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  1. Re:Typical by girlintraining · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh noes, you've set her off again ... she's going to be reminding everyone how "unique" she is all bloody day now :-(

    But I am unique! Just like everybody else...

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  2. Re:Typical by girlintraining · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    girl in training seems to imply to me transgender / recently entering into real life trial or recently post-operative.

    *cough* Or I could have grown up in the country and don't act like a proper lady, on account of being a tomboy, and my friends have been trying to rehabilitate me from my wicked, wicked ways by assaulting me with makeup and nail polish and demanding I stop wearing t-shirts all the time.

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