The Historic past of OS/2 (2001)

The Historic past of OS/2

I include started the employ of OS/2 in 1995 and became once bizarre to search out out what OS/2
regarded cherish sooner than that. There are already several web sites/sites committedto the history of OS/2 nevertheless none of them rather cheerful me. So I starteddigging on my include, reading inclined books and magazine articles, searching forinformation on the Cyber web and closing nevertheless now not least managed to set up maximumof the outdated variations of OS/2. The results of my efforts are presented
here.

The guidelines is wreck up into several sections. Most of this knowledgehas been within the foundation published within the OS/2 VOICE Newsletter, though thesepages include several additions and corrections.

• OS/2 1.0 – The Beginnings. How and why OS/2
  became once developed and what became once sooner than.
• OS/2 1.1 and 1.2 – The Early Years. The
  first variations of OS/2 with a GUI.
• OS/2 1.3 – Ten Years Ago. The closing and finest
  16-bit model of OS/2.
• OS/2 EE – The Server. Enterprise application
  in OS/2 1.x period.
• OS/2 2.0 – The 32-bit Revolution. The predominant
  32-bit model of OS/2.
• OS/2 2.1 and a pair of.11 – The Solid Platform.
  With 2.11 32-bit OS/2 reached maturity.
• OS/2 Warp – The Golden Years. The maximumsuccessful model of OS/2.

The extra considerable releases in OS/2 are summarized on this timeline.

I’m dangerous if I will write the leisure about Warp 4 (or newer variations)
because they’re mute widely passe, i.e. now not basically history. Presumably I’llif there is ample passion.

I’d cherish to build yet another page on beta variations of OS/2 nevertheless I mightcherish to to find MS OS/2 2.0 beta from 1989 or 1990 first. If whereI would possibly maybe maybe uncover a copy, please let me
know!

Here shall be figured out a list of “reveals”
in my shrimp OS/2 museum. Descriptions finest, no photos yet – with the exception ofthe screenhots within the above articles unquestionably.