IBM assured customers Thursday that the company will continue to sell and support OS/2, clarifying an online notice that drew speculation that the vintage operating system was being phased out. The ...

A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM—again—to release the operating system’s source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so… but if it can. Not, I expect, ...

IBM’s ill-fated operating system OS/2 turns 25 this month, but it’s not as dead as you might think. IBM’s ill-fated operating system OS/2 turns 25 this month, but it’s not as dead as you might think.

In the annals of PC history, IBM’s OS/2 represents a road not taken. Developed in the waning days of IBM’s partnership with Microsoft—the same partnership that had given us a decade or so of MS-DOS ...

Hands up: who, like me, was a one-time IBM OS/2 user? What, you don’t know OS/2? It was IBM and (briefly) Microsoft’s 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the world.

It was one of the most ambitious computer-product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry, which ...

With International Business Machine’s getting its marketing machine behind OS/2 2.0, PC hobbyists are destined to hear more about it. We asked local personal computer expert Ed Stiles to review the ...

OS/2 community site OS2World.com organised the second petition in an attempt to reverse a 2005 decision by IBM not to open source the operating system. Over 11,000 people signed the petition in 2005, ...

The Mach 20 also wasn't particularly popular, but it was apparently popular enough for Microsoft to decide it warranted a ...

IBM announced on Monday that the man who oversaw the development of its OS/2 operating system in Boca Raton over the past four years is resigning to take a job in Alabama. Tommy D. Steele, 51, ...

IBM releases z/OS 2.5 to help modernize mainframe computing Your email has been sent IBM recently announced the release of version 2.5 of its z/OS mainframe operating ...