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OS/2 Dead

OS/2
KindOperating system
Appeared1987
StatusDead
CreatorIBM & Microsoft
FamilyOS/2
Platformx86
Sourcewww.os2world.com ↗

'A better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than Windows' — the workplace shell that lost to marketing; ArcaOS keeps the license alive.

Succeeded by ArcaOS
Created by IBM Microsoft
Descendants ArcaOS

OS/2 (1987) was IBM and Microsoft's joint successor to DOS — the first commercial OS with a protected-mode GUI, a real multitasking model, and the Workplace Shell object-oriented desktop. Microsoft left for Windows; IBM finished 2.0 (1992) alone.\n\nIBM sold it to Serenity Systems in 1996; ArcaOS maintains it today — a 35-year-old OS still commercially supported.

Sources

  1. os2world.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2