The Rise and Fall of OS/2 By Atari 2600 in Atari 2600's Diary Mon Nov 25, 2013 at 02:03:00 AM EST Tags: Blastard, IBM, OS-2, Microsoft, backstabbing, riding the bear (all tags)
	Hey ho, OS/2 was half an operating system because early on it was just 16 bits, and Microsoft rode the bear and sabotaged it. Microsoft had pulled a Crawfraud on IBM.

Thus begins Orion and Del's Excellent OS/2 Adventure to save OS/2 history at Mega: 1988Office which is Del's Advanced DOS 4.0 (IBM OS/2 1.X in Europe was called this) and an early version of Office in a QEMU machine. The best that 1988 had to offer for OS/2 and Microsoft Office, but sabotaged because it was only 16 bits. IBM OS/2 2.0 virtual machine was better and it ran BBS software like a motherfucker while DOS/Windows ate shit at the time. As a challenge I made an IBM OS/2 3.0 Warp QEMU virtual machine because people claimed it could not be done. I'd make more QEMU machines based on OS/2 but I ran out of time and patience. Here is the last known IBM OS/2 versions 4 and 4.52 which you can download and try to make virtual machines of, or install on old PC hardware. IBM OS/2 Warp Server 4 IBM OS/2 Warp Server 4 with SMP support. IBM OS/2 Advanced Warp Server 4.52 CP2 IBM OS/2 2.1 IBM Old OS/2 1.X collection Microsoft OS/2 1.0 not the same as IBM OS/2. Microsoft OS/2 Server 1.3.1 not the same as IBM OS/2 Server and lead to Windows NT. Microsoft OS/2 2.0 Beta never released and rewritten by scratch for Microsoft OS/2 3.0 which was later renamed Windows NT, so this was the last Microsoft OS/2 before the Windows NT rewrites. Subtract one letter from O and add it to the S and drop the /2 and you get NT. Sort of like how HAL is one letter changed in each three letters to make IBM. OS2Boot.iso a utility disk with OS/2 images on it to troubleshoot OS/2 install problems. Wordperfect 5.2, the last OS/2 Wordperfect after Microsoft strongarmed Wordperfect to drop OS/2 support for Windows support instead. Microsoft Word 1.1 for OS/2 Microsoft Excel 2.2 for OS/2 Netscape 4.61 for OS/2, last version of Netscape for OS/2 needs OS?2 3.0 and above to work. OpenOffice 2.02 for OS/2 OS/2 Survivor Disk packed with goodies to keep your OS/2 fresh. OS/2 Drivers just in case you have some popular software OS/2 didn't support. OS/2 Internet programs can't find these on the Internet anymore. OS/2 TCP/IP drivers to get on the Internet, much like the Mac/TCP that Crawford made for MacOS. IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 floppy disk images you know in case you don't have a CD that OS/2 supports. OS2V20.EXE Del's OS/2 2.0 QEMU virtual machine install program. OS/2 2.0 Pre-release because old doesn't mean shitty. OSFree.iso the OSFree project was to create a free and open source port of OS/2, this was the last known ISO before the website went down. OSFree Binaries OSFree tools OSFree sources last known source code before the OS/2 Nazis had the OSFree project nuked from orbit. Well stick a fork in it, the OS/2 Preservation Internet Museum has a large OS/2 collection in it now at Mega.

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OS/2 was half an operating system because early on it was just 16 bits, and Microsoft rode the bear and sabotaged it Microsoft had pulled a Crawfraud on IBM 1988Office IBM OS/2 2.0 virtual machine was better As a challenge I made an IBM OS/2 3.0 Warp QEMU virtual machine Here is the last known IBM OS/2 versions 4 and 4.52 IBM OS/2 Warp Server 4 IBM OS/2 Warp Server 4 with SMP support IBM OS/2 Advanced Warp Server 4.52 CP2 IBM OS/2 2.1 IBM Old OS/2 1.X collection Microsoft OS/2 1.0 Microsoft OS/2 Server 1.3.1 Microsoft OS/2 2.0 Beta OS2Boot.is o Wordperfec t 5.2, the last OS/2 Wordperfect after Microsoft strongarmed Wordperfect to drop OS/2 support for Windows support instead. Microsoft Word 1.1 for OS/2 Microsoft Excel 2.2 for OS/2 Netscape 4.61 for OS/2, last version of Netscape for OS/2 needs OS?2 3.0 and above to work. OpenOffice 2.02 for OS/2 OS/2 Survivor Disk OS/2 Drivers OS/2 Internet programs OS/2 TCP/IP drivers IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 floppy disk images OS2V20.EXE OS/2 2.0 Pre-release OSFree.iso OSFree Binaries OSFree tools OSFree sources Atari 2600's Diary