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An operating system for Intel machines, still on life support and concurrently developed as eComStation.
Available since 1988. Developed by
IBM
,
Microsoft
and
Serenity Systems
.
1985
IBM and Microsoft sign the development agreement
1987
OS/2 1.0 announced as a text-mode operating system
1988
OS/2 1.10
1989
OS/2 1.20
1990
OS/2 1.30
(22 screenshots)
1992
OS/2 2
(40 screenshots)
1994
OS/2 Warp 3
(45 screenshots)
1996
OS/2 Warp 4
(48 screenshots)
2001
Serenity Systems starts reselling OS/2, calling it eComStation
eComStation 1.0
2003
eComStation 1.1
2004
eComStation 1.2
“Sorting out fact from fiction in the Apple-Microsoft lawsuit”
from PC Magazine 1988
“A guide to GUIs”
from Byte 1989
“The X attitude”
from Byte 1991
“Win 95 vs. OS/2: Some thoughts”
from PC Magazine 1995
“One thousand square pixels of canvas”
by Marcin Wichary, 2003
“Interview with Nathan Lineback”
by Marcin Wichary, 2005
83
icons
23
sounds
1
tutorial
3
trivia
5
taglines
6
splashes
8
links
OS/2 2.1
10
magazine ads, including:
Two-page advertisement of OS/2 Warp with Phil Jackson
An advertisement of OS/2 2.0 from PC Magazine ’92
A two-page advertisement of OS/2 2.0 from PC Magazine ’92
Another advertisement of OS/2 2.0 from PC Magazine ’92
2
other ads:
A slideshow from May 1992
A slideshow from late 1994
“The icon book”
“The Cross-GUI Handbook”
“The GUI Style Guide”
Copyright © 2002-2006
Marcin Wichary
, unless stated otherwise.