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.

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.

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 ...

The official names of "OS / 2" are "IBM Operating System / 2" and "Microsoft Operating System / 2". OriginallyIBM PS / 2Although it was developed as an OS for use, it was also transplanted to many ...

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 ...

25 years ago, IBM was still the biggest force in the PC industry. On this date in 1987, the company announced a new partnership with Microsoft that at the time seemed to be the next major step in the ...

IBM unveils its latest operating system software for personal computers today, one week before Microsoft is expected to announce its newest upgrade into the same market.The announcement is significant ...

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 ...