IBM OS/2 might be dead, but ArcaOS is an officially-sanctioned continuation.

A quarter of a century after IBM released the last official version of OS/2, someone is still keeping the platform alive under the ArcaOS name. Arca ...

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 ...

IBM, which will end support of its aging OS/2 operating system after 2006, is recommending that OS/2 customers migrate to Linux instead of Windows. But there’s little likelihood that IBM’s advice will ...

ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct ...

Loony as that may sound, the thought came to me a few weeks ago when IBM launched its new Branch Transformation Portfolio for the banking industry. The company describes it as a multichannel platform ...

Harry McCracken dusts off the history books: On April 2, 1987…IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry…[with the] PS/2 line…accompanied by a next-generation operating system, OS/2…intended ...

In context: The early 1990s were tumultuous years for the home computer operating system market. Major corporations were vying for dominance in the emerging GUI-based paradigm, with Microsoft poised ...

In a move that marks the end of an era, New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced the impending closure of its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024. For over three decades, the archive ...

Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will pay $775 million to IBM to settle an antitrust lawsuit from the mid-1990s in which IBM charged that certain Microsoft practices hurt its OS/2 operating system and ...