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 announced on Monday that the man who oversaw the development of its OS/2 operating system in Boca Raton over the past four years is resigning to take a job in Alabama. Tommy D. Steele, 51, ...

A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM—again—to release the operating system’s source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so… but if it can. Not, I expect, ...

Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition calling on IBM to publish the source code of OS/2. IBM announced last week that it will discontinue OS/2 products by the end of this year and will withdraw ...

Hands up: who, like me, was a one-time IBM OS/2 user? What, you don’t know OS/2? It was IBM and (briefly) Microsoft’s 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the world.

Arca Noae, which is behind a revival of OS/2, has attended a convention of OS/2 users to spill the beans about the Blue Lion project. I know what you are thinking, but apparently there is an OS/2 ...

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 ...

The International Business Machines Corp. formally introduced the second generation of its beleaguered OS/2 operating system software last week at the Comdex fall trade show in Las Vegas. Company ...

OS/2 community site OS2World.com organised the second petition in an attempt to reverse a 2005 decision by IBM not to open source the operating system. Over 11,000 people signed the petition in 2005, ...

IBM has finally announced a date for the demise of its OS/2 operating system, despite preparing a consolidated release of the software in November. IBM has finally announced a date for the demise of ...

"My client," said the defence lawyer, "comes from a broken home." It's not a plea for clemency that judges hear very often now that families fission like amoeba, but in OS/2's case it's still a strong ...

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...