OS/2 is 20 years old today
IF OUR CALENDARS serve us right, April 2007 means twenty years have passed since the initial "Microsoft-IBM OS/2 1.0" announcement. But the story of OS/2 is not always told right.
Once upon a time, Bill Nichols wrote, "Linux gets all the press, Microsoft gets all the hate mail, OS/2 gets ignored. But somehow, OS/2 users keep on running this relatively unknown and little respected system. Why? 'Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan." A statement with which I agree completely.
In this anniversary, I'd like to shed some light about my first-hand experience with this legendary OS, especially since I see many attempts at history re-writing and over-simplification, when people compress OS/2's two decades into a single paragraph.
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